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Consoling ghosts : stories of medicine and mourning from Southeast Asians in exile / Jean M. Langford.
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TextPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013Description: 263 pISBN: - 9780816687176
- 9780816687183
- HQ1073 L269 C 2013
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MATRIX Library General Eng/FL.3 | General Books | HQ1073 L269 C 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | C.1 | Available | 1000373860 |
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"--
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