The Resource Consoling ghosts : stories of medicine and mourning from Southeast Asians in exile, Jean M. Langford
Consoling ghosts : stories of medicine and mourning from Southeast Asians in exile, Jean M. Langford
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The item Consoling ghosts : stories of medicine and mourning from Southeast Asians in exile, Jean M. Langford represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries.
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- Summary
- "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"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- vii, 263 pages
- Contents
-
- Introduction : afterlives
- Violent traces
- Displacements
- Disciplines of dying
- Dangerous language
- Syllables of power
- Postmortem economies
- Spirit debt
- Afterword : on the status of ghosts
- Isbn
- 9780816687176
- Label
- Consoling ghosts : stories of medicine and mourning from Southeast Asians in exile
- Title
- Consoling ghosts
- Title remainder
- stories of medicine and mourning from Southeast Asians in exile
- Statement of responsibility
- Jean M. Langford
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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"--
- Assigning source
- Publisher's Web site
- Cataloging source
- NIC/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Langford, Jean
- Dewey number
- 362.17/50973
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HQ1073.5.U6
- LC item number
- L36 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Laotian Americans
- Cambodian Americans
- Death
- Terminal care
- Spiritualism
- Label
- Consoling ghosts : stories of medicine and mourning from Southeast Asians in exile, Jean M. Langford
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Introduction : afterlives -- Violent traces -- Displacements -- Disciplines of dying -- Dangerous language -- Syllables of power -- Postmortem economies -- Spirit debt -- Afterword : on the status of ghosts
- Control code
- 841584943
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- vii, 263 pages
- Isbn
- 9780816687176
- Isbn Type
- (hbk. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2013018889
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)841584943
- Label
- Consoling ghosts : stories of medicine and mourning from Southeast Asians in exile, Jean M. Langford
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Introduction : afterlives -- Violent traces -- Displacements -- Disciplines of dying -- Dangerous language -- Syllables of power -- Postmortem economies -- Spirit debt -- Afterword : on the status of ghosts
- Control code
- 841584943
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- vii, 263 pages
- Isbn
- 9780816687176
- Isbn Type
- (hbk. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2013018889
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)841584943
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