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Mediums and magical things : statues, paintings, and masks in Asian places / Laurel Kendall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kendall, Laurel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Idols and images--Asia.
- Idols and images.
- Religious art--Asia.
- Religious art.
- Religious articles--Asia.
- Religious articles.
- Commodification.
- Asia.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 228 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Paintings, statues, 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 Indonesia. It considers how such things are fabricated, marketed, cared for, disposed of, and sometimes transformed into art-market commodities and museum artifacts"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- MacGuffins and magical things
- Ensoulments
- Materiality, making, and magic
- Agency and assemblage
- The ambiguities of the unsacred
- Afterlives.
- Notes:
- "A Philip E. Lilienthal book"
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Kendall, Laurel Margarite, 1947- Mediums and magical things
- ISBN:
- 9780520298668
- 0520298667
- 9780520298675
- 0520298675
- OCLC:
- 1201663444
- Publisher Number:
- 99987550548
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