01495cam a2200277 i 4500 130509s2013 nyu b s001 0 eng c 9780816687176 9780816687183 SDU HQ1073 L269 C 2013 Langford, Jean, 220144 Consoling ghosts : stories of medicine and mourning from Southeast Asians in exile / Jean M. Langford. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013 263 p. : Introduction : afterlives -- Violent traces -- Displacements -- Disciplines of dying -- Dangerous language -- Syllables of power -- Postmortem economies -- Spirit debt -- Afterword : on the status of ghosts. HKBU library YT2025 M09 "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"-- Laotian Americans Death. 220145 Cambodian Americans Death. 220146 Death Social aspects United States. 181602 Terminal care Social aspects United States. 220147 Spiritualism United States. 220148 = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 112722 112722 0 0 lcc 0 HQ1073 L269 C2013 0 CGB 282596 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-09-22 2 0 HQ1073 L269 C 2013 1000373860 2025-09-22 00:00:00 C.1 2025-09-22 GBE