War and Shadows The Haunting of Vietnam

Name: War and Shadows The Haunting of Vietnam
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ISBN: 9780801475016

ISBN-10: 0801475015

ISBN-13: 9780801475016

Edition: 2009

Authors: Mai Lan Gustafsson

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Vietnamese culture and religious traditions place the utmost importance on dying well: in old age, body unblemished, with surviving children, and properly buried and mourned. More than five million people were killed in the Vietnam War, many of them young, many of them dying far from home. Another 300,000 are still missing. Having died badly, they are thought to have become angry ghosts, doomed to spend eternity in a kind of spirit hell. Decades after the war ended, many survivors believe that the spirits of those dead and missing have returned to haunt their loved ones. In War and Shadows, the anthropologist Mai Lan Gustafsson tells the story of the anger of these spirits and the torments…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 7/23/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface



The Problem



Foundations



Revelations



The Living and the Dead



Afterlives



Problem Solving



"Superstition" in a Secular State



Revivals



Conclusion


Epilogue



Table of Suffering



Chronology of the War


Notes


References


Index