Consoling Ghosts
Subtitle: Stories of Medicine and Mourning from Southeast Asians in Exile
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780816687183
Subjects: Death, social aspects; Terminal care; Spiritualism; United states, social conditions
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"--