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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kendall, Laurel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commodification.

Idols and images--Asia.

Idols and images.

Religious art--Asia.

Religious art.

Religious articles--Asia.

Religious articles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

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 Asia. It considers how such things are fabricated, marketed, cared for, disposed of, and sometimes transformed into art-market commodities and museum artifacts.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520420694

0520420691

9780520970717

0520970713

OCLC:

1227790760