{"product_id":"mediums-and-magical-things-statues-paintings-and-masks-in-asian-places-9780520298668","title":"Mediums and Magical Things Statues Paintings and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStatues, paintings, and maskslike the bodies of shamans and spirit mediumsgive 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMediums and Magical Things \u003c\/i\u003emakes a valuable contribution to the study of material religion, anthropology of religion, and religion in modernity. It is a timely volume that will no doubt fulfill Kendall’s hope that it ‘propel others down similar paths’.\" * Nova Religio *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMediums and Magic Things\u003c\/i\u003e contributes to the study of material religion and the anthropology of religion in a very readable and easily accessible way.\" * Religious Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Preface and Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Conventions \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. MacGuffins and Magical Things\u003cbr\u003e 2. Ensoulments\u003cbr\u003e 3. Materiality, Making, and Magic\u003cbr\u003e 4. Agency and Assemblage \u003cbr\u003e 5. The Ambiguities of the Unsacred\u003cbr\u003e 6. Afterlives \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402904346967,"sku":"9780520298668","price":63.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520298668.jpg?v=1730481817","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mediums-and-magical-things-statues-paintings-and-masks-in-asian-places-9780520298668","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}