{"product_id":"beneath-the-volcano-9789067181204","title":"Beneath the Volcano","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gregory L. Forth\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Brill\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Brill\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Comparative Religion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeneath the Volcano\u003c\/i\u003e is the first major account of the Nage, who inhabit the central part of Flores in eastern Indonesia.\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46897345724567,"sku":"9789067181204","price":4022.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789067181204.webp?v=1770362362","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/beneath-the-volcano-9789067181204","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}