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Autor:
Mensah Adinkrah
Witchcraft violence is a feature of many contemporary African societies. In Ghana, belief in witchcraft and the malignant activities of putative witches is prevalent. Purported witches are blamed for all manner of adversities including inexplicable i
Autor:
Mensah Adinkrah
Publikováno v:
International journal of humanities, literature & arts. 5:24-28
The article examines suro nipa, a popular maxim of the Akan people of Ghana, against the backdrop of a fictional tale told in the popular Akan novel by A. E. Asiamah titled Suro Nipa. An ambitious young man named Kwabena Anson who owned a flourishing
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https://doi.org/10.21744/ijhla.v5n1.1792
https://doi.org/10.21744/ijhla.v5n1.1792
Autor:
Mensah Adinkrah
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Language, Linguistics, Literature and Culture. :21-27
Suicide in fiction can promote insights into perceptions of, and attitudes about suicide ideation and behavior in a society. This article uses the novel Aku Sika as a case in point. Aku Sika is a novel set in Ghana in the 1950s. It is about a young m
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https://doi.org/10.59009/ijlllc.2022.0003
https://doi.org/10.59009/ijlllc.2022.0003
Autor:
Mensah Adinkrah
Publikováno v:
International Annals of Criminology. 59:136-166
Numerous studies find that sexual jealousy is a motivating factor in many intimate partner femicides. Given the paucity of scholarship in non-Western societies, the current article sought to extend empirical knowledge on the subject by focusing on se
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https://doi.org/10.1017/cri.2021.15
https://doi.org/10.1017/cri.2021.15
Autor:
Mensah Adinkrah
Publikováno v:
OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying. :003022282210824
Thanatologists who have researched mortuary beliefs and practices from around the world posit that many societies differentiate between good and bad deaths. The current study utilized in-depth interviews with 30 Akan culture experts to investigate wh
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https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228221082417
https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228221082417
Autor:
Mensah Adinkrah
Publikováno v:
Death studies. 46(3)
This article describes features of bad deaths and their associated mortuary rituals among the Akan of Ghana. Data were obtained through semi-structured interviews with 30 Akan cultural experts. In Akan culture, bad deaths are associated with brief, p
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32412885
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32412885
Autor:
Mensah Adinkrah
Publikováno v:
Journal of elder abuseneglect. 32(3)
The current article presents the results of an exploratory research that examined 16 homicides perpetrated by grandchildren against their own grandmothers in Ghana, West Africa. The term grannicide was coined by the present author and employed in the
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32202226
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32202226
Autor:
Mensah Adinkrah
Publikováno v:
Journal of Family Violence. 32:817-829
There is a paucity of empirical research on patricide in Africa and many non-Western societies. To help fill this scholarly vacuum and contribute to the literature on patricide, the current article presents the results of an analysis of 18 cases of p
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-017-9939-y
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-017-9939-y
Autor:
Mensah Adinkrah
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. 62:2391-2413
The current article represents an examination of commercial transactions involving the sale of children in contemporary Ghana. It presents the results of a criminological analysis of 20 cases of commercial transactions in children in Ghana. It descri
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https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624x17721524
https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624x17721524
Autor:
Mensah Adinkrah
Publikováno v:
OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying. 74:138-163
Akan society has traditionally held a negative and condemnatory view of suicide. Evidence of this is reflected in the lack of public mourning, brevity of the grieving period, and denial of proper burial rites and funeral obsequies for the suicide. Fu
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https://doi.org/10.1177/0030222815598427
https://doi.org/10.1177/0030222815598427