{"product_id":"community-in-the-balance-1","title":"Community in the Balance","description":"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  life in villages in close proximity. The option is real. Yet while the incessant social  demands and low-level enmities they attribute to village life are also felt, most  acutely in the peril of sorcery, the accounts of strife are exaggerated to help  establish the mutuality of the terms on which people do associate-as a collective  sacrifice and virtue. Drawing on Aristotelian ideas of morality and exploring the  modalities of recognition, desire, and displacement, the book focuses on the  strategies of negotiation and obfuscation Maneo employ to foster community life. As volition is central to moral practice, the book's analysis of the subsequent  religious conflagration that swept the province between 1999 and 2002  illuminates how fears and rumors of attack narrowed options that might  otherwise have enabled enough people to opt out, condemn the violence, and  perhaps contain it.","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54260147650904,"sku":"9781594510786","price":235.6,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781594510786_19ee9d97-8566-424e-991c-67b64f50bed9.jpg?v=1777825821","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/community-in-the-balance-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}