| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
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text file PDF |
| Note |
"A Philip E. Lilienthal Book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
MacGuffins and magical things -- Ensoulments -- Materiality, making, and magic -- Agency and assemblage -- The ambiguities of the unsacred -- Afterlives. |
| 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 |
| Language |
In English. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Idols and images -- Asia.
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Religious art -- Asia.
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Religious articles -- Asia.
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Commodification.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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Commodification |
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Idols and images |
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Religious art |
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Religious articles |
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Asia |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Kendall, Laurel. Mediums and magical things. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021] 9780520298668 (DLC) 2020051188 |
| ISBN |
0520970713 (electronic book) |
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9780520970717 (electronic bk.) |
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9780520298668 (hardcover) |
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9780520298675 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
10.1525/9780520970717 |
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