Introduction : afterlives -- Violent traces -- Displacements -- Disciplines of dying -- Dangerous language -- Syllables of power -- Postmortem economies -- Spirit debt -- Afterword : on the status of ghosts
Summary
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. -- Publisher's website
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-256) and index
Notes
Online resource; title from e-book title screen (JSTOR platform, viewed March 30, 2016)
