I am planning on making a barbarian that uses unarmed attacks. Without making him a monk, what items could be used to make fists count as magic?
Also if he had, say, silver gloves, would that count as a silver weapon?
Amulet of might fists (PFRPG pg. 496) is what you are looking at to make unarmed attacks magical. As for doing it with a barbarian you'll probably have less head-ache mechanically with spiked gauntlets. They will be cheaper to pick up (+1 gauntlets vs +1 amulet is almost 3000g difference - the difference gets much higher the bigger the enhancement). Magic Fang and Greater Magic Fang spells can be used to make your fists magical as well, you could gain access to them via potions/oils, but you will be spending most of your money on temporary enhancements then.
As for the silver, I don't think there is anything in PFRPG that does that, alchemical silver only works on metal objects so it wouldn't do anything for you. 3.5 there might have been something in the magic item compendium that did something similar. Otherwise if you can wait, I'm fairly certain magic weapons (not the spells magic fang/gtr magic fang) bypass silver at a certain enhancement bonus (+3 I think). But my guess is you are talking about lower levels. Again spiked guantlets might give you what you want here (being metal) more easily. As for the gloves, by the rules no, but you could always ask your DM about it and how to price them if they were to allow you to do it.
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what items could be used to make fists count as magic?
Also if he had, say, silver gloves, would that count as a silver weapon?
Amulet of Mighty Fists
As for silver gloves, he would be limited to Gauntlet strikes based on his size. So if he had SUS or some other "increase unarmed damage" he couldn't use Gauntlets to deal the increased damage.