Consoling ghosts
Langford, Jean,
Consoling ghosts stories of medicine and mourning from Southeast Asians in exile / [electronic resource] : Jean M. Langford. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (pages cm)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : afterlives -- Violent traces -- Displacements -- Disciplines of dying -- Dangerous language -- Syllables of power -- Postmortem economies -- Spirit debt -- Afterword : on the status of ghosts.
"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"--
9781452939858 1452939853
Spiritualism--United States.
Terminal care--Social aspects--United States.
Death--Social aspects--United States.
Cambodian Americans--Death.
Laotian Americans--Death.
Electronic books.
HQ1073.5.U6 / L36 2013
362.17/50973
Consoling ghosts stories of medicine and mourning from Southeast Asians in exile / [electronic resource] : Jean M. Langford. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (pages cm)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : afterlives -- Violent traces -- Displacements -- Disciplines of dying -- Dangerous language -- Syllables of power -- Postmortem economies -- Spirit debt -- Afterword : on the status of ghosts.
"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"--
9781452939858 1452939853
Spiritualism--United States.
Terminal care--Social aspects--United States.
Death--Social aspects--United States.
Cambodian Americans--Death.
Laotian Americans--Death.
Electronic books.
HQ1073.5.U6 / L36 2013
362.17/50973