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UNINA9910791599903321 |
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Autore |
Kwon Heonik <1962-> |
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Titolo |
Ghosts of war in Vietnam / / Heonik Kwon [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008 |
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0-511-38149-2 |
1-107-18443-6 |
0-511-38821-7 |
1-281-25488-6 |
0-511-38619-2 |
0-511-38722-9 |
0-511-80759-7 |
0-511-38255-3 |
0-511-38436-X |
9786611254889 |
0-511-38038-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare ; ; 27 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Social aspects |
Collective memory - Vietnam |
Ghosts |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-213) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Ghosts of war -- Mass excavation -- Missing in action -- The phantom leg -- Death in the street -- Transforming ghosts -- Money for ghosts. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book is a fascinating study of the Vietnamese experience and memory of the Vietnam War through the lens of popular imaginings about the wandering souls of the war dead. These ghosts of war play an important part in postwar Vietnamese historical narrative and imagination, and Heonik Kwon 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 these hidden but vital historical presences from their uprooted social existence. Taking a unique approach to the cultural history of war, he introduces gripping |
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