Title Spirit children : illness, poverty, and infanticide in northern Ghana / Aaron R. Denham.

Publication Info.	Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2017]
	©2017

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 217 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Africa and the diaspora: history, politics, culture
	Africa and the diaspora.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Contextualizing Infanticide and Northern Ghana; 2. For the House; 3. For the Bush; 4. Spirit Child Behavior and Causation; 5. Detection and Decision-Making; 6. Concoctions and Concoction Men: Treating Spirit Children; 7. Causing Death and Prolonging Lives; 8. Why Infanticide?: Sentiments and the Dynamics of Choice; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index.
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Subject	Infanticide -- Ghana.
	Infanticide.
	Ghana.
	Children -- Ghana -- Death -- Religious aspects.
	Children.
	Death.
	Frafra (African people) -- Ghana -- Religion.
	Frafra (African people)
	Religion.
	Frafra (African people) -- Ghana -- Social life and customs.
	Manners and customs.
	Frafra (African people) -- Ghana -- Social conditions.
	Social conditions.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Subject	Children.
Other Form:	Print version: Denham, Aaron R. Spirit children. Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2017] 9780299311209 (DLC) 2016041575 (OCoLC)959372937
ISBN	9780299311230 (electronic book)
	0299311236 (electronic book)
	9780299311209
	0299311201