ISBN:
9780521880619
,
9781107659421
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
VIII, 222 S.
Ausgabe:
1. paperback ed.
Serie:
Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare 27
Serie:
Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare
DDC:
959.7043
Schlagwort(e):
Collective memory
;
Ghosts
;
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Social aspects
;
Vietnamkrieg
;
Geister
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
Vietnam
;
Vietnam
;
Vietnamkrieg
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
Geister
Kurzfassung:
The wandering souls of the war dead play an important part in postwar Vietnamese historical narrative and imagination. This volume explores the intimate ritual ties with these unsettled identities which still survive in Vietnam today, as well as the actions of those who hope to liberate them.
Anmerkung:
Literaturverz. S. 197-213
,
Ghosts of war, Mass excavation, Missing in action, The phantom leg, Death in the street, Transforming ghosts, Money for ghosts
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