Consoling ghosts : stories of medicine and mourning from Southeast Asians in exile / Jean M. Langford.

  • Langford, Jean
Date:
[2013]
  • Books

About this work

Description

"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"-- Publisher's Web site.

Publication/Creation

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]

Physical description

vii, 263 pages ; 22 cm

Contents

Introduction : afterlives -- Violent traces -- Displacements -- Disciplines of dying -- Dangerous language -- Syllables of power -- Postmortem economies -- Spirit debt -- Afterword : on the status of ghosts.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Languages

Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    JIB.F.6
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780816687176
  • 081668717X
  • 9780816687183
  • 0816687188