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Consoling ghosts stories of medicine and mourning from Southeast Asians in exile
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Title
Consoling ghosts [electronic resource] : stories of medicine and mourning from Southeast Asians in exile / Jean M. Langford.
ISBN
9781452939858
1452939853
9780816687176 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780816687183 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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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 / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 07, 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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