Singing to the dead : (Record no. 50246)

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008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2001008022
015 ## - NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
National bibliography number GBA2X6568
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0820323586
Qualifying information (hardcover ;
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International Standard Book Number 9780820323589
Qualifying information (hardcover ;
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OCLC library identifier AU@
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OCLC library identifier NLGGC
System control number 234954663
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OCLC library identifier NZ1
System control number 6664598
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System control number (OCoLC)48662424
Canceled/invalid control number (OCoLC)49640238
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Original cataloging agency DLC
Language of cataloging eng
Transcribing agency DLC
Modifying agency BAKER
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Authentication code pcc
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050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number BV3317.A76
Item number A3 2002
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 261.8/328
Edition number 21
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Armour-Hileman, Victoria,
Dates associated with a name 1958-
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Singing to the dead :
Remainder of title a missioner's life among refugees from Burma /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Victoria Armour-Hileman.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Athens, Ga. :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. University of Georgia Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. ©2002.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvii, 257 p. ;
Dimensions 24 cm.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Blessings in the rain -- Flying Buddha -- Florence Nightingale -- Mothers and sons -- Beyond risk -- A soldier in the jungle -- A basket of prayers -- Dancing with the hurricane -- Death railway -- A letter from prison -- Selling death -- Misunderstandings -- Where our sympathies lie -- Safe -- The sound of the prison gate -- A true friend -- The stories we tell -- Where the poor search for justice -- Snowy river -- Crossing borders -- Presidents and kings -- When Monland is free -- One step forward -- Singing to the dead -- The face of God -- A strange reception -- A case of stomachache -- The lion and the dragon.
520 1# - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "It is 1992, and the Burmese government's current war on its indigenous people runs into its fourth year. In neighboring Thailand, a small band of Buddhist monks harbors refugees from Burma inside their modest temple in the slums of Bangkok. The monks and refugees are all natives of the Burmese Mon State. All have the same residential status in Thailand: illegal. Under surveillance, and overwhelmed by the needs of their charges, the monks reach out to international aid agencies in Bangkok for help in ministering to the tortured, the wounded, the diseased, and the orphaned." "Singing to the Dead recalls a Catholic lay missioner's work alongside the Mon Buddhist monks of Bangkok. For more than two years, Victoria Armour-Hileman was a go-between for the monks, interceding with the world outside their temple walls for everything from a cornea transplant for a land mine victim to money to buy shoes for barefoot orphans. Singing to the Dead details an aid worker's ongoing education: how to weave through an embassy bureaucracy, how to stave off burnout, how to pull money out of thin air at the eleventh hour, when to trust and when to be cautious, when to kowtow, when to pray." "As the centuries-old conflict between Burma and its Mon people worsens, police raids on the temple in Bangkok increase. Refugees have never been safe, but now even the monks' unofficial immunity seems tenuous. When one of the monks is threatened with repatriation to Burma and possible imprisonment and torture, Armour-Hileman begins the desperate race to secure a new home country for him. She knows that these final efforts are as selfish as they are humanitarian, for what kind of God, and what kind of universe, will she believe in if she fails?"--Jacket.
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Armour-Hileman, Victoria,
Dates associated with a name 1958-
610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element Catholic Church
General subdivision Missions
Geographic subdivision Thailand
-- Bangkok.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Mon (Southeast Asian people)
Geographic subdivision Thailand
-- Bangkok.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Church work with refugees
Geographic subdivision Thailand
-- Bangkok.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Refugees
Geographic subdivision Burma.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Missionaries
Geographic subdivision Thailand
-- Bangkok
Form subdivision Biography.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme Library of Congress Classification
Koha item type Book: Standard
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    Library of Congress Classification     England Collection Hewitson Library, Presbyterian Research Centre Hewitson Library, Presbyterian Research Centre 23/07/2018   BV3317.A76 A3 2002 18-557 23/07/2018 23/07/2018 Book: Standard

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