Beneath the volcano : : religion, cosmology and spirit classification among the Nage of eastern Indonesia / / Gregory Forth.

• Superior document: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 177
• Author: Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Netherlands)
• VerfasserIn: Forth, Gregory,
• TeilnehmendeR: Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Netherlands)
• 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 ; 177.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

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...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• CHAPTER I: Introduction
• 1. Nage then and now
• 2. An overview of Nage social and ceremonial organization
• 3. Social and religious change
• 4. Methods and format
• CHAPTER II: The story of Wonga Wea
• 1. The story of Wonga Wea
• 2. The history of Lowa Bata and clan Deu
• 3. The story of Lalo Sue and Siku Sue
• CHAPTER III: Souls and free spirits
• 1. Mae
• 2. Mae mango and the buffalo spirit
• 3. Plant souls
• CHAPTER IV: The category of nitu
• 1. The unmarked nitu
• 2. Nitu and natural kinds
• 3. Relations with human beings
• 4. Marriage with spirits
• 5. Earth, gold and buffalo: unmarked and marked nitu
• CHAPTER V: Specific images
• 1. Logo Lia
• 2. Manu ke'o and naga
• 3. Noa
• 4. Ana ula
• 5. Ebu gogo
• 6. Comparison and classification
• CHAPTER VI: Varieties of ga'e
• 1. The spirits of trees, stones and water
• 2. Ga'e hebu and ga'e peo
• 3. The guardian spirit of the house
• 4. The guardian spirit of the village
• 5. The guardian spirits of rice and buffalo
• 6. Comparisons and conclusions
• CHAPTER VII: Theconceptof bapu
• 1. The people atop the volcano
• 2. Ritual expressions: tu téte wolo
• 3. Birds and snakes: bapu and nitu
• 4. Trophy horns and hebu trees
• 5. The water buffalo
• CHAPTER VIII: Power-granting spirits, or bapu of the below
• 1. Power-granting spirits and questing for power
• 2. Spirits and spirit questing in Nage myth and legend
• 3. Bapu and polo
• 4. Bapu in ritual
• 5. Bapu in spirit classification
• CHAPTER IX: Ga'e déwa Divinity and supreme being
• 1. Dewa and ga'e
• 2. Sky and earth, male and female
• 3. Functions, powers and features
• 4. Ritual associations
• 5. Ga' e dewa and nitu
• CHAPTER X: Creation and cosmogony
• 1. Myths of creation
• 2. Cosmological themes
• 3. Ancestral figures.
• 4. Extraordinary ancestors
• 5. Mythology, cosmology and geography
• 6. The category ebu
• CHAPTER XI: Ancestors and spirits of the dead
• 1. Nage conceptions of ancestors
• 2. Death and mortuary ritual
• 3. The destination of the dead
• 4. Ancestors, dead souls and free spirits
• 5. Comparative issues and further questions
• 6. Concluding remarks
• CHAPTER XII: Spirits, persons and powers
• 1. Toa mali
• 2. Witches, wealth and power
• 3. Leaders, trunk riders and killers of buffalo
• 4. Stones and dreams: ordinary and extraordinary uses of mystical power
• 5. Further observations and conclusions
• CHAPTER XIII: Buffalo sacrificing in the constitution of Nage cosmology and society
• 1. Instances of buffalo sacrificing
• 2. A synoptic account of pa
• 3. Violence, blood and efficacy
• 4. The victim
• 5. Buffalo sacrificing and social structure
• CHAPTER XIV: A classification of spirits
• 1. Spirit classification
• 2. Encompassment
• 3. Resemblance
• 5. Lexical pairing
• 6. Transformation, derivation and value
• 7. Ritual, knowledge and classification
• 8. Free spirits, ancestors and divinity: classification and ideology
• Bibliography
• Index.