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Published on: 2016-02-04
Released on: 2016-02-04
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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 of their kin. Gustafsson's rich ethnographic research allows her to bring readers into the world of spirit possession, focusing on the source of the pain, the physical and mental anguish the spirits bring, and various attempts to ameliorate their anger through ritual offerings and the intervention of mediums. Through a series of personal life histories, she chronicles the variety of ailments brought about by the spirits' wrath, from headaches and aching limbs (often the same limb lost by a loved one in battle) to self-mutilation. In Gustafsson's view, the Communist suppression of spirit-based religion after the fall of Saigon has intensified anxieties about the well-being of the spirit world. While shrines and mourning are still allowed, spirit mediums were outlawed and driven underground, along with many of the other practices that might have provided some comfort. Despite these restrictions, she finds, victims of these hauntings do as much as possible to try to lay their ghosts to rest. Taps Gallery Vietnam Veterans Home Page This gallery honors Vietnam Veterans who have recently made their last patrol and also the anniversary dates of those who died in country. Please submit names and ... Pinnacle Game Profiler - Use Any Controller with Any PC ... Pinnacle Game Profiler enables the use of virtually any game controller (gamepad joystick etc.) with any PC game. It's preconfigured for most game titles and ... Cheatbook - Cheat Codes Cheats Games Trainer Cheatsbook ... Cheatbook your source for Cheats Video game Cheat Codes and Game Hints Walkthroughs FAQ Games Trainer Games Guides Secrets cheatsbook Best War Movies to Watch - Good Movies List Explore best war movies of all time. Follow direct links to watch top films online on Netflix Amazon and iTunes. Game Revolution - Xbox 360 Wii PS3 PS2 Game Cheats ... The largest independent source of video game information reviews cheats screenshots and more for the Xbox 360 Wii PS3 PS2 and other consoles. Battle of Okinawa: The Bloodiest Battle of the Pacific War ... 6/12/2006 World War II. Private First Class Eugene B. Sledge of the 1st Marine Division had been fighting in 1945 on the miserable island of Okinawa for six ... Poems of Vietnam War by pilot Curt Bennett Poems of the Vietnam War by American pilot Curt Bennett. recommended reading. Best war movies of all time including action and foreign films The 50 best war movies of all time Our critics pick out and rank the 50 best war movies ever from patriotic classics to military epics Haunting reminder of millions of lives lost in war as ... Haunting reminder of millions of lives lost in war as artists stencil 9000 bodies onto Normandy beach to mark Peace Day. British led project covered the famous ... Galactic Empire Wookieepedia Fandom powered by Wikia The Galactic Empire also known as the Old Empire the First Galactic Empire Palpatine's New...
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