Aaron R Denham
Biographic Data
| ID | 137350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aaron R Denham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aaron R |
| FAMILY NAME | Denham |
| SIGNATURE | DENHAM A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Arizona University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Of House or Bush
In northern Ghana, the Nankani people describe how disabled or ill children and those whose births coincide with tragic events are spirit children sent from the bush to cause misfortune and destroy the family. Upon identification, some spirit children are subject to infanticide. People often describe spirit children as wanting to kill the same-sex parent to take over the house. Based on discourse alone, one might explain the spirit child in terms…
Elucidating knowledge and beliefs about obesity and eating disorders among key stakeholders
The findings indicate areas where the EDs and obesity fields have common ground and can work together in developing integrated health promotion programs
A Psychodynamic Phenomenology of Nankani Interpretive Divination and the Formation of Meaning
Divination probes the inchoate, concealed, or mysterious in an effort to acquire knowledge, validate understandings, or imbue decisions with authority. Among the Nankani people in Northern Ghana, men communicate with ancestors through an interpretive form of divination to make decisions, uncover the hidden, and seek explanations for misfortune. Many scholarly accounts of divination emphasize social processes and divination's role in maintaining s…
Chasing spirits
Rethinking Historical Trauma
There is significant variation in how people experience, emplot and intergenerationally transmit trauma experiences. Despite this variation, the literature rarely illustrates alternative manifestations or resilient responses to the construct of historical trauma. Based upon person-centered ethnographic research, this article highlights how a four-generation American Indian family contextualizes historical trauma and, specifically, how they frame …
Rethinking Historical Trauma
There is significant variation in how people experience, emplot and intergenerationally transmit trauma experiences. Despite this variation, the literature rarely illustrates alternative manifestations or resilient responses to the construct of historical trauma. Based upon person-centered ethnographic research, this article highlights how a four-generation American Indian family contextualizes historical trauma and, specifically, how they frame …
Chasing spirits
A Psychodynamic Phenomenology of Nankani Interpretive Divination and the Formation of Meaning
Divination probes the inchoate, concealed, or mysterious in an effort to acquire knowledge, validate understandings, or imbue decisions with authority. Among the Nankani people in Northern Ghana, men communicate with ancestors through an interpretive form of divination to make decisions, uncover the hidden, and seek explanations for misfortune. Many scholarly accounts of divination emphasize social processes and divination's role in maintaining s…
Of House or Bush
In northern Ghana, the Nankani people describe how disabled or ill children and those whose births coincide with tragic events are spirit children sent from the bush to cause misfortune and destroy the family. Upon identification, some spirit children are subject to infanticide. People often describe spirit children as wanting to kill the same-sex parent to take over the house. Based on discourse alone, one might explain the spirit child in terms…
Rethinking Historical Trauma
There is significant variation in how people experience, emplot and intergenerationally transmit trauma experiences. Despite this variation, the literature rarely illustrates alternative manifestations or resilient responses to the construct of historical trauma. Based upon person-centered ethnographic research, this article highlights how a four-generation American Indian family contextualizes historical trauma and, specifically, how they frame …
Chasing spirits
A Psychodynamic Phenomenology of Nankani Interpretive Divination and the Formation of Meaning
Divination probes the inchoate, concealed, or mysterious in an effort to acquire knowledge, validate understandings, or imbue decisions with authority. Among the Nankani people in Northern Ghana, men communicate with ancestors through an interpretive form of divination to make decisions, uncover the hidden, and seek explanations for misfortune. Many scholarly accounts of divination emphasize social processes and divination's role in maintaining s…
Elucidating knowledge and beliefs about obesity and eating disorders among key stakeholders
The findings indicate areas where the EDs and obesity fields have common ground and can work together in developing integrated health promotion programs
Of House or Bush
In northern Ghana, the Nankani people describe how disabled or ill children and those whose births coincide with tragic events are spirit children sent from the bush to cause misfortune and destroy the family. Upon identification, some spirit children are subject to infanticide. People often describe spirit children as wanting to kill the same-sex parent to take over the house. Based on discourse alone, one might explain the spirit child in terms…
Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works)