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Mediums and Magical Things Laurel Kendall

Mediums and Magical Things By Laurel Kendall

Mediums and Magical Things by Laurel Kendall


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Mediums and Magical Things: Statues, Paintings, and Masks in Asian Places by Laurel Kendall

Statues, paintings, and masks-like the bodies of shamans and spirit mediums-give material form and presence to otherwise invisible entities, and sometimes these objects are understood to be enlivened, agentive on their own terms. This book explores how magical images are expected to work with the shamans and spirit mediums who tend and use them in contemporary South Korea, Vietnam, Myanmar, Bali, and elsewhere in Asia. It considers how such things are fabricated, marketed, cared for, disposed of, and sometimes transformed into art-market commodities and museum artifacts.

Mediums and Magical Things Reviews

Mediums and Magical Things makes a valuable contribution to the study of material religion, anthropology of religion, and religion in modernity. It is a timely volume that will no doubt fulfill Kendall's hope that it 'propel others down similar paths'. * Nova Religio *
Mediums and Magic Things contributes to the study of material religion and the anthropology of religion in a very readable and easily accessible way. * Religious Studies Review *

About Laurel Kendall

Laurel Kendall is Curator of Asian Ethnographic Collections at the American Museum of Natural History and Senior Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Conventions

1. MacGuffins and Magical Things
2. Ensoulments
3. Materiality, Making, and Magic
4. Agency and Assemblage
5. The Ambiguities of the Unsacred
6. Afterlives
Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Additional information

NGR9780520298675
9780520298675
0520298675
Mediums and Magical Things: Statues, Paintings, and Masks in Asian Places by Laurel Kendall
New
Paperback
University of California Press
2021-05-25
280
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