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

By Laurel Kendall

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9780520970717
DOI
10.1525/9780520970717
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
45 MB (47105774 bytes)
Pages
280\252
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 19:06:56

Description

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.

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