Bibliograph

Mediums and magical things, statues, paintings, and masks in Asian places, Laurel Kendall

Type

Label

Mediums and magical things, statues, paintings, and masks in Asian places, Laurel Kendall

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mediums and magical things

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Laurel Kendall

Sub title

statues, paintings, and masks in Asian places

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

Table Of Contents

MacGuffins and magical things -- Ensoulments -- Materiality, making, and magic -- Agency and assemblage -- The ambiguities of the unsacred -- Afterlives

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