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008			130509s2013 nyu b s001 0 eng c
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040			_aSDU
050	0	0	_aHQ1073 _bL269 C 2013
100	1		_aLangford, Jean, _9220144
245	1	0	_aConsoling ghosts : _bstories of medicine and mourning from Southeast Asians in exile / _cJean M. Langford.
260			_aMinneapolis : _bUniversity of Minnesota Press, _c2013
300			_a263 p. :
505	0		_aIntroduction : afterlives -- Violent traces -- Displacements -- Disciplines of dying -- Dangerous language -- Syllables of power -- Postmortem economies -- Spirit debt -- Afterword : on the status of ghosts.
505	0		_aHKBU library
518			_aYT2025 M09
520			_a"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"--
650		0	_aLaotian Americans _xDeath. _9220145
650		0	_aCambodian Americans _xDeath. _9220146
650		0	_aDeath _xSocial aspects _zUnited States. _9181602
650		0	_aTerminal care _xSocial aspects _zUnited States. _9220147
650		0	_aSpiritualism _zUnited States. _9220148
900			_a= C.1 SDU
942			_cGBE _2lcc
999			_c112722 _d112722