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Paperback Beneath the Volcano: Religion, Cosmology and Spirit Classification Among the Nage of Eastern Indonesia Book

ISBN: 906718120X

ISBN13: 9789067181204

Beneath the Volcano: Religion, Cosmology and Spirit Classification Among the Nage of Eastern Indonesia

(Book #177 in the Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde Series)

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...

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