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Beneath the Volcano : Religion, Cosmology and Spirit Classification among the Nage of Eastern Indonesia / Gregory L. Forth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Forth, Gregory, author.
- Series:
- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 177.
- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 177
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Godsdienst.
- Kosmology.
- Ethnology--Indonesia--Flores Island.
- Ethnology.
- Nage (Indonesian people)--Religion.
- Nage (Indonesian people).
- Flores Island (Indonesia)--Religion.
- Flores Island (Indonesia).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Other Title:
- Religion, Cosmology and Spirit Classification among the Nage of Eastern Indonesia
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 1998.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Beneath the Volcano : Religion, Cosmology and Spirit Classification among the Nage of Eastern Indonesia.
- ISBN:
- 9789004434844
- 9789067181204
- OCLC:
- 605495668
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004434844 DOI
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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