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Statues, 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.
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The publisher and the University of California Press Foundation gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the Philip E. Lilienthal Imprint in Asian Studies, established by a major gift from Sally Lilienthal.
Laurel Kendall
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Permission to reprint has been sought from rights holders for images and text included in this volume, but in some cases it was impossible to clear formal permission because of coronavirus-related institution closures. The author and the publisher will be glad to do so if and when contacted by copyright holders of third-party material.
University of California Press
Oakland, California
2021 by Laurel Kendall
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kendall, Laurel, author.
Title: Mediums and magical things : statues, paintings, and masks in Asian places / Laurel Kendall.
Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020051188 (print) | LCCN 2020051189 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520298668 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780520298675 (paperback) | ISBN 9780520970717 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH : Idols and imagesAsia. | Religious artAsia. | Religious articlesAsia. | Commodification.
Classification: LCC BL 485 . K 46 2021 (print) | LCC BL 485 (ebook) | DDC 202/.18095dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020051188
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020051189
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To Hildred Geertz and Nguyn Vn Huy who, each in their own way, made it possible for me to see and learn in places outside my normal beat
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