Consoling Ghosts: Stories of Medicine and Mourning from Southeast Asians in Exile
<DIV><P>Inspired by conversations with emigrants from Laos and Cambodia, <EM>Consoling Ghosts</EM> 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...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis
University of Minnesota Press
2013
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| In: | Year: 2013 |
| Further subjects: | B
Terminal care -- Social aspects -- United States
B Laotian Americans -- Death B Laotian Americans ; Death B Death ; Social aspects ; United States B Spiritualism ; United States B Electronic books B Death -- Social aspects -- United States B Spiritualism -- United States B Cambodian Americans ; Death B Cambodian Americans -- Death B Terminal care ; Social aspects ; United States |
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| Parallel Edition: | Print version: Consoling Ghosts : Stories of Medicine and Mourning from Southeast Asians in Exile: |
| Summary: | <DIV><P>Inspired by conversations with emigrants from Laos and Cambodia, <EM>Consoling Ghosts</EM> 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. </P></DIV> |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| ISBN: | 0816687188 |