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

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Inspired by conversations with emigrants from Laos and Cambodia, this book is a sustained contemplation of relationships with the dying and the dead. The author invites readers to consider alternate ways of facing death, conducting relationships with the dead and dying, and addressing the effects of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Langford, Jean (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Temas:
Laotian Americans > Death.
Cambodian Americans > Death.
Death > Social aspects > United States.
Terminal care > Social aspects > United States.
Spiritualism > United States.
Death.
Spiritualism.
Immigrants.
Social ecology.
Asian Americans.
Death
Attitude to Death > ethnology
Terminal Care
Spiritualism
Emigrants and Immigrants
Social Environment
Asian
Américains d'origine laotienne > Mort.
Américains d'origine cambodgienne > Mort.
Mort > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Soins en phase terminale > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Spiritisme > États-Unis.
Mort.
Soins en phase terminale.
Spiritisme.
Écologie sociale.
Américains d'origine asiatique.
deaths.
spiritualism.
human ecology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Social ecology
Immigrants
Asian Americans
Death > Social aspects
Terminal care > Social aspects
United States
Asia, Southeastern > ethnology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Inspired by conversations with emigrants from Laos and Cambodia, this book is a sustained contemplation of relationships with the dying and the dead. The author invites readers 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. --
Descripción Física:1 online resource (vii, 263 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-256) and index.
ISBN:9781461951308
1461951305
9781452939858
1452939853
9781452948751
1452948755

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