Description
| Product ID: | 9780520298675 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Mediums and Magical Things |
| Subtitle: | Statues, Paintings, and Masks in Asian Places |
| Authors: | Author: Laurel Kendall |
| Page Count: | 280 |
| Subjects: | History of art, History of art / art & design styles, Religious and ceremonial art, Museology and heritage studies, Asian history, Buddhist life and practice, Hindu life and practice, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Social and cultural anthropology, Religious subjects depicted in art, Museology & heritage studies, Asian history, Buddhist life & practice, Hindu life & practice, Religious groups: social & cultural aspects, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Asia |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Statues, paintings, 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. |
| Imprint Name: | University of California Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of California Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-05-25 |
