摘要：The eight articles in this issue testify to the vitality of popular religion in
Vietnam in the Renovation Era (..i M.i, post-1986). Six articles on sacred
objects wed material culture studies to the anthropology of religion and
magic and to the practical work of museums that house sacred objects in
their collections. Underscoring the importance of material goods in popular
religious practice, our work appears at the intersection of three trends: a
revival of interest in and rethinking of the broad concept of “magic,” material
culture studies’ new emphasis on commodities and market relations that
sometimes finds “magic” at work in these transactions, and the insistence by
aboriginal communities that museums treat some material artifacts as sacred
objects. This introduction situates the six object-oriented studies in relation
to these developments as resonant with other work on religious revival in
Vietnam today, represented in this issue by two additional contributions: an
account of a village’s quarrel with folkloric representations of its festival, and a
study of sacred healing by spirit mediums in the Mother Goddess Religion.
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