Laurel Kendall's guest appearances

Laurel Kendall

The Korea Society

Science at AMNH

The Korea Now Podcast

Blaine Harden

Minsoo Kang

Jieun Baek

Immanuel Kim

Sandra Fahy

Terence Roehrig

Douglas Preston

Andrew Friedman

Hooni Kim

Scott Snyder

Alan Rabinowitz

John Cho

Scott Walker

Walter Russell Mead

Charlotte Cho

OwlTail

May 6, 2021 - 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. Dr. Laurel Kendall explores how magical images are expected to work with the shamans and spirit mediums in contemporary South Korea and compares the use of these shamanic images with similar practices in Vietnam, Myanmar, and Bali. The question of empowered images concerns not only what they are expected to do but how they are fabricated, marketed, cared for, disposed of, and sometimes transformed into art-market commodities and museum artifacts. For more information, please visit the link below: https://www.koreasociety.org/arts-culture/item/1494-sacred-images-and-magical-things

May 6, 2021 - 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. Dr. Laurel Kendall explores how magical images are expected to work with the shamans and spirit mediums in contemporary South Korea and compares the use of these shamanic images with similar practices in Vietnam, Myanmar, and Bali. The question of empowered images concerns not only what they are expected to do but how they are fabricated, marketed, cared for, disposed of, and sometimes transformed into art-market commodities and museum artifacts. For more information, please visit the link below: <a href="https://www.koreasociety.org/arts-culture/item/1494-sacred-images-and-magical-things" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.koreasociety.org/arts-culture/item/1494-sacred-images-and-magical-things</a>

Sacred Images and Magical Things with Dr. Laurel Kendall

This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Laurel Kendall. They speak about Laurel’s anthropological field work since the late 1970’s with Korean Shamans, the shifting dynamics of the religion in a rapidly changing nation, and the impact that capitalism and intense market competition has had on its practice. Laurel Kendall is the Curator of Asian Ethnology and Division Chair at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), as well as a Professor of Anthropology at the Richard Gilder Graduate School. With nearly four decades of working experience with Korean Shamans, Laurel has published numerous books and articles – this podcast is based around her 1996 article, ‘Korean Shamans and the Spirits of Capitalism’ and her 2009 book, ‘Shamans, nostalgias, and the IMF : South Korean popular religion in motion’. (Laurel Kendall’s AMNH webpage:  https://www.amnh.org/our-research/staff-directory/laurel-kendall/).   Donate at Patreon – https://www.patreon.com/jedleahenry Website – http://www.jedleahenry.org Libsyn – http://korea-now-podcast.libsyn.com Youtube – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_qg6g1KyHaRXi193XqF6GA Twitter – https://twitter.com/jedleahenry Academia.edu – http://university.academia.edu/JedLeaHenry Research Gate – https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jed_Lea-Henry

This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Laurel Kendall. They speak about Laurel’s anthropological field work since the late 1970’s with Korean Shamans, the shifting dynamics of the religion in a rapidly changing nation, and the impact that capitalism and intense market competition has had on its practice. Laurel Kendall is the Curator of Asian Ethnology and Division Chair at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), as well as a Professor of Anthropology at the Richard Gilder Graduate School. With nearly four decades of working experience with Korean Shamans, Laurel has published numerous books and articles – this podcast is based around her 1996 article, ‘Korean Shamans and the Spirits of Capitalism’ and her 2009 book, ‘Shamans, nostalgias, and the IMF : South Korean popular religion in motion’. (Laurel Kendall’s AMNH webpage: <a href="https://www.amnh.org/our-research/staff-directory/laurel-kendall/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.amnh.org/our-research/staff-directory/laurel-kendall/</a>). Donate at Patreon – <a href="https://www.patreon.com/jedleahenry" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/jedleahenry</a> Website – <a href="http://www.jedleahenry.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.jedleahenry.org</a> Libsyn – <a href="http://korea-now-podcast.libsyn.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">http://korea-now-podcast.libsyn.com</a> Youtube – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_qg6g1KyHaRXi193XqF6GA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_qg6g1KyHaRXi193XqF6GA</a> Twitter – <a href="https://twitter.com/jedleahenry" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/jedleahenry</a> <a href="http://Academia.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Academia.edu</a> – <a href="http://university.academia.edu/JedLeaHenry" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://university.academia.edu/JedLeaHenry</a> Research Gate – <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jed_Lea-Henry" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jed_Lea-Henry</a>

The Korea Now Podcast #13 – Laurel Kendall – ‘Korean Shamans – Supernatural Capitalism’

In this podcast, Museum curator of anthropology Laurel Kendall navigates the journey that Korean shaman paintings make from painters' studios to shrines to private collections and museums, and traverses the borderland between scholarly interest in the material dimensions of religious practice and the circulation of art.This lecture took place at the Museum on September 24, 2015.Photo © AMNH/D. Finnin

In this podcast, Museum curator of anthropology Laurel Kendall navigates the journey that Korean shaman paintings make from painters' studios to shrines to private collections and museums, and traverses the borderland between scholarly interest in the material dimensions of religious practice and the circulation of art. This lecture took place at the Museum on September 24, 2015. Photo © AMNH/D. Finnin

Picturing Spirits in Korea with Laurel Kendall