Guanyin's Limbo: Icons as Demi-Persons and Dividuating Objects
How do objects and humans relationally constitute one another? In this article, we examine statues of Guanyin, the bodhisattva of compassion, in Hong Kong to illuminate the forms of personhood and agency that arise through human–icon relations in a modern metropolis. We follow the life course of Gua...
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Wiley-Blackwell
2019
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