Consoling ghosts: stories of medicine and mourning from Southeast Asians in exile

"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...

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Main Author: Langford, Jean (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Minneapolis, MN University of Minnesota Press 2013
In:Year: 2013
Further subjects:B Attitude to death ethnology
B United States
B POLITICAL SCIENCE - Public Policy - Social Security
B Américains d'origine laotienne - Mort
B SOCIAL SCIENCE - Anthropology - Cultural
B Social Environment
B Human Ecology
B social ecology
B Asian
B Américains d'origine cambodgienne - Mort
B Soins en phase terminale
B POLITICAL SCIENCE - Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare
B Soins en phase terminale - Aspect social - États-Unis
B Death Social aspects (United States)
B Spiritisme - États-Unis
B Terminal Care
B Terminal Care Social aspects (United States)
B Emigrants and Immigrants
B deaths
B Écologie sociale
B Mort
B Cambodian Americans Death
B Américains d'origine asiatique
B Spiritualism
B Immigrants
B Spiritualism (United States)
B Laotian Americans Death
B Spiritisme
B Mort - Aspect social - États-Unis
B Terminal care - Social aspects
B Death
B Asian Americans
B Death - Social aspects
B Asia, Southeastern ethnology
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)

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