Beneath the volcano : : religion, cosmology and spirit classification among the Nage of eastern Indonesia / / Gregory Forth.
Beneath the Volcano is the first major account of the Nage, who inhabit the central part of Flores in eastern Indonesia. The book focuses on Nage ideas concerning a variety of spiritual beings and how these influence both ritual practices and ideas about human beings. In exploring these subjects, th...
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| Superior document: | Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 177 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : KITLV Press,, [1998] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 1998 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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| Summary: | Beneath the Volcano is the first major account of the Nage, who inhabit the central part of Flores in eastern Indonesia. The book focuses on Nage ideas concerning a variety of spiritual beings and how these influence both ritual practices and ideas about human beings. In exploring these subjects, the author sets out to uncover a classification of spirits. While quite different from taxonomies of natural beings, Nage ways of linking named categories of spirits nevertheless reveal a regular conceptual order. In describing this order, use is made of a version of Dumont's notion of 'encompassment'. Common ideas informing relations between Nage humans and several categories of spirits are further interpreted as instances of a pervasive principle of 'symmetric inversion', according to which human beings are spirits for the spirits. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004434844 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Gregory Forth. |