RT Book
T1 Consoling ghosts: stories of medicine and mourning from Southeast Asians in exile
A1 Langford, Jean
LA English
PP Minneapolis, MN
PB University of Minnesota Press
YR 2013
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1003751202
AB "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"--
AB Introduction : afterlives -- Violent traces -- Displacements -- Disciplines of dying -- Dangerous language -- Syllables of power -- Postmortem economies -- Spirit debt -- Afterword : on the status of ghosts
OP 263
NO Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-256) and index
CN HQ1073.5.U6
SN 0-8166-8717-X
SN 0-8166-8718-8
SN 1-4529-3985-3
SN 1-4619-5130-5
SN 978-0-8166-8717-6
SN 978-0-8166-8718-3
SN 978-1-4529-3985-8
SN 978-1-4619-5130-8
K1 Laotian Americans : Death
K1 Cambodian Americans : Death
K1 Death : Social aspects : United States
K1 Terminal Care : Social aspects : United States
K1 Spiritualism : United States
K1 Death
K1 Spiritualism
K1 Immigrants
K1 social ecology
K1 Asian Americans
K1 Attitude to death : ethnology
K1 Terminal Care
K1 Emigrants and Immigrants
K1 Social Environment
K1 Asian
K1 Américains d'origine laotienne - Mort
K1 Américains d'origine cambodgienne - Mort
K1 Mort - Aspect social - États-Unis
K1 Soins en phase terminale - Aspect social - États-Unis
K1 Spiritisme - États-Unis
K1 Mort
K1 Soins en phase terminale
K1 Spiritisme
K1 Écologie sociale
K1 Américains d'origine asiatique
K1 deaths
K1 Human Ecology
K1 POLITICAL SCIENCE - Public Policy - Social Security
K1 POLITICAL SCIENCE - Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE - Anthropology - Cultural
K1 Death - Social aspects
K1 Terminal care - Social aspects
K1 United States
K1 Asia, Southeastern : ethnology