1st Edition
Community in the Balance Morality and Social Change in an Indonesian Society
By James Hagen
Copyright 2006
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Community in the Balance presents a fresh perspective on some classic social science issues. It examines the conflicts and tensions that permeate day-to-day interactions of a people in a remote region of the eastern Indonesian province of Maluku. The Maneo openly tout the pleasures of living alone in the forests of Seram away from the demands of kith and kin and the scrutiny that comes from... Read more
Dedication. List of Figures. List of Tables. Introduction. Maneo History and Settlement. Reckoning Kinship. Espousal, Choice, and Desire. Marriage, Gender, and the Conditions of Sociality. The Good behind the Gift. Between Faith and Reason. Community in the Visible Spectrum. In the Crucible of Violence.
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Authored by Hagen, James
“In Hagen’s Community in the Balance, one finds both a fine and deeply empathetic ethnography of a marginal hill-people in Eastern Indonesia and a subtle meditation on the fragility of this, and indeed any, human community. … One of the rewards of this book is that its meditation on community is greatly enriched by a wide reading of contemporary and classical philosophy. … an amazingly rich and subtly argued ethnography.”
—James C. Scott, Political Science and Anthropology, Yale University, in Comparative Studies in Society and History
