Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Maneo History and Settlement; Chapter 2 Reckoning Kinship; Chapter 3 Espousal, Choice, and Desire; Chapter 4 Marriage, Gender, and the Conditions of Sociality; Chapter 5 The Good Behind the Gift; Chapter 6 Between Faith and Reason; Chapter 7 Community in the Visible Spectrum; Chapter 8 In the Crucible of Violence;

About the Author

Jim Hagen lived in Indonesia for four years, including 20 months of field work on the island of Seram. Currently an administrator at Trinity College, he has taught at Mount Holyoke College, the University of Cincinnati, and John Carroll University and has lectured widely.

Reviews

“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