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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Format: | Print Book |
Language: | English |
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Minneapolis, Minn. [u.a.]
University of Minnesota Press
2013
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In: | Year: 2013 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Dos Passos, John 1896-1970, U.S.A.
/ Lao
/ Cambodian
/ Immigrants
/ Belief in spirits
/ Death
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Further subjects: | B
Laotian Americans
Death
B Death Social aspects (United States) B Cambodian Americans Death B Terminal Care Social aspects (United States) B Spiritualism (United States) |