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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
9781452948751 (ebook) :
Publication
Minneapolis, Minnesota : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Copyright Notice Date
©2013
Physical Description
1 online resource (vii, 263 pages)
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Summary
'Consoling Ghosts' is a sustained contemplation of relationships with the dying and the dead as inspired by conversations with emigrants from Laos and Cambodia. Emigrants' thoughts and stories often refer and defer to spirits, from the wandering souls of the seriously ill to the dangerous ghosts of those who died by violence, and from restless ancestors displaced from their homes to adjudicating spirits of Southeast Asian landscapes. Langford considers how and why such spirits become implicated in remembering and responding to violence.
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Minnesota scholarship online.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 05, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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