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
Contributors
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : afterlives -- Violent traces -- Displacements -- Disciplines of dying -- Dangerous language -- Syllables of power -- Postmortem economies -- Spirit debt -- Afterword : on the status of ghosts.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineJIB.F.6Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9780816687176
- 081668717X
- 9780816687183
- 0816687188