Overview

Inspired by conversations with emigrants from Laos and Cambodia, ConsolingGhosts is a sustained contemplation of relationships with the dying and thedead. Jean M. Langford invites us to consider alternate ways of facing death,conducting relationships with the dead and dying, and addressing the effects ofviolence that continue to reverberate in bodies and social worlds. 

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Consoling Ghosts is a truly exceptional work. It is both tremendously moving and terrifically insightful. The writing is brilliant and shimmers with both subtlety and lucidity. This is all the more striking, in this instance, given the complexity of thought conveyed in the book. What is ostensibly a rich ethnographic inquiry into a logic of 'ghosts' and 'haunting, ' and notions of unfulfilled reciprocity, is actually a much richer meditation on themes regarding the repetitions of violence that haunt emigres from Cambodia and Laos to the United States. --Andrew Willford, Cornell University

Consoling Ghosts is a truly exceptional work. It is both tremendously moving and terrifically insightful. The writing is brilliant and shimmers with both subtlety and lucidity. This is all the more striking, in this instance, given the complexity of thought conveyed in the book. What is ostensibly a rich ethnographic inquiry into a logic of 'ghosts' and 'haunting, ' and notions of unfulfilled reciprocity, is actually a much richer meditation on themes regarding the repetitions of violence that haunt emigres from Cambodia and Laos to the United States. --Andrew Willford, Cornell University Consoling Ghosts is a truly exceptional work. It is both tremendously moving and terrifically insightful. The writing is brilliant and shimmers with both subtlety and lucidity. This is all the more striking, in this instance, given the complexity of thought conveyed in the book. What is ostensibly a rich ethnographic inquiry into a logic of ghosts and haunting, and notions of unfulfilled reciprocity, is actually a much richer meditation on themes regarding the repetitions of violence that haunt emigres from Cambodia and Laos to the United States. Andrew Willford, Cornell University

Consoling Ghosts is a truly exceptional work. It is both tremendously moving and terrifically insightful. The writing is brilliant and shimmers with both subtlety and lucidity. This is all the more striking, in this instance, given the complexity of thought conveyed in the book. What is ostensibly a rich ethnographic inquiry into a logic of 'ghosts' and 'haunting, ' and notions of unfulfilled reciprocity, is actually a much richer meditation on themes regarding the repetitions of violence that haunt migr s from Cambodia and Laos to the United States. --Andrew Willford, Cornell University

Author Information

Jean M. Langford is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Fluent Bodies: Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance.

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