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Consoling ghosts : stories of medicine and mourning from Southeast Asians in exile
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Consoling ghosts : stories of medicine and mourning from Southeast Asians in exile / Jean M. Langford.
ISBN
9780816687176 (hbk. : alk. paper)
081668717X (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780816687183 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0816687188 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Physical Description
vii, 263 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
"Inspired by conversations with emigrants from Laos and Cambodia, Consoling Ghosts is a sustained contemplation of relationships with the dying and the dead. Jean M. Langford invites us to consider alternate ways of facing death, conducting relationships with the dead and dying, and addressing the effects of violence that continue to reverberate in bodies and social worlds"-- Publisher's Web site.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 08, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : afterlives
Violent traces
Displacements
Disciplines of dying
Dangerous language
Syllables of power
Postmortem economies
Spirit debt
Afterword : on the status of ghosts.
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