TY  - BOOK
AU  - Langford,Jean
TI  - Consoling ghosts: stories of medicine and mourning from Southeast Asians in exile 
SN  - 9780816687176
AV  - HQ1073 L269 C 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Minneapolis : 
PB  - University of Minnesota Press, 
KW  - Laotian Americans
KW  - Death
KW  - Cambodian Americans
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Terminal care
KW  - Spiritualism
N1  - 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
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"--
ER  -