Consoling ghosts : stories of medicine and mourning from Southeast Asians in exile / Jean M. Langford.

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Langford, Jean

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TextPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013Description: 263 pISBN:

9780816687176
9780816687183

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HQ1073 L269 C 2013

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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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"--

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"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"--

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