Index. Introduction -- 7. Ghosts of war -- The ghosts of the American War -- Dealing with strangers -- Ghosts and the state -- 2. Mass excavation -- The exodus of the dead -- Apparitions in Cam Re -- The ghost of an American officer -- Vietnam-American joint venture -- 3. Missing in action -- Politics of home burial -- New MIA program -- Brotherly conflict -- Two ways to end the cold war -- 4. The phantom leg -- The network of war -- The infrastructure of revolution -- Tiger temple -- Same, same -- Lap the amputee -- The hidden history of the missing leg -- 5. Death in the street -- Intimacy with displaced souls -- Mother of the home-place -- Homesickness -- Distant reciprocity -- One man's ghost is another man's ancestor -- 6. Transforming ghosts -- The taste of phantom salt -- Lien Hoa -- Intrusive ghosts -- Mobility -- The network of spirits -- The spirit of a born-and-bred communist -- Letters from the prison -- Liberation -- Making kinship -- 7. Money for ghosts -- Death and wealth -- Old money and new money -- Heads and tails -- Money's two destinations -- Money and liberty -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare 27
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