TY  - BOOK
AU  - Langford,Jean
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Consoling ghosts: stories of medicine and mourning from Southeast Asians in exile 
SN  - 9781452939858
AV  - HQ1073.5.U6 L36 2013
U1  - 362.17/50973 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
KW  - Spiritualism
KW  - United States
KW  - Terminal care
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Death
KW  - Cambodian Americans
KW  - Laotian Americans
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781452939858/
ER  -