Laurel Kendall is Curator of Asian Ethnographic Collections at the American Museum of Natural History and Senior Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University.

"Mediums and Magical Things makes 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’."

• List of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsConventions 1. MacGuffins and Magical Things2. Ensoulments3. Materiality, Making, and Magic4. Agency and Assemblage 5. The Ambiguities of the Unsacred6. Afterlives ConclusionNotes Bibliography Index

Laurel Kendall is Curator of Asian Ethnographic Collections at the American Museum of Natural History and Senior Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University.

"Mediums and Magical Things makes 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’."

• List of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsConventions 1. MacGuffins and Magical Things2. Ensoulments3. Materiality, Making, and Magic4. Agency and Assemblage 5. The Ambiguities of the Unsacred6. Afterlives ConclusionNotes Bibliography Index

Laurel Kendall is Curator of Asian Ethnographic Collections at the American Museum of Natural History and Senior Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University.

"Mediums and Magical Things makes 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’."

• List of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsConventions 1. MacGuffins and Magical Things2. Ensoulments3. Materiality, Making, and Magic4. Agency and Assemblage 5. The Ambiguities of the Unsacred6. Afterlives ConclusionNotes Bibliography Index