stories of medicine and mourning from Southeast Asians in exile Langford, Jean creator text bibliography nyu Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press 2013 monographic eng

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263 p. : "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"-- 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 Jean M. Langford. YT2025 M09 Laotian Americans Death Cambodian Americans Death Death Social aspects United States Terminal care Social aspects United States Spiritualism United States HQ1073 L269 C 2013 9780816687176 9780816687183 SDU 130509