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

by Laurel Kendall

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520298675
• ISBN13: 9780520298675
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"