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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Langford, Jean (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Terminal care > Social aspects.
Spiritualism.
Death > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
human ecology.
spiritualism.
deaths.
Americains d'origine asiatique.
Écologie sociale.
Immigrants.
Spiritisme.
Soins en phase terminale.
Mort.
Spiritisme > États-Unis.
Soins en phase terminale > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Mort > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Americains d'origine cambodgienne > Mort.
Americains d'origine laotienne > Mort.
Asian Americans
Social Environment
Emigrants and Immigrants
Spiritualism
Terminal Care
Attitude to Death > ethnology
Death
Asian Americans.
Social ecology.
Death.
Spiritualism > United States.
Terminal care > Social aspects > United States.
Death > Social aspects > United States.
Cambodian Americans > Death.
Laotian Americans > Death.
United States.
Asia, Southeastern > ethnology
United States
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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. --
Description matérielle:1 online resource (304 pages).
ISBN:9781452939858

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