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'. * Nova Religio * Mediums and Magic Things contributes to the study of material religion and the anthropology of religion in a very readable and easily accessible way. * Religious Studies Review *