SOUTH-EAST ASIAN SOCIAL SCIENCE MONOGRAPHS ADAT AND DINAS BSE COMMUNITS  THE INDONESIAN STATE ,i ' ◄ OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Adat and Dinas is a study of the dynamics of community organization in contemporary Bali and of the ambivalent relationship between village institutions (adat) and those of the Indonesian state (dinas). Pround links between earth, ancestral ties, and death ceremonial obligations form the cultural basis for co-operative relations in the village domain and for the dence of local interests in engagements with the state. Most striking is the power and cohesion exhibited by the banjar, the civic community in Bali and the primary cus of the study. The book traces the banjar's role in serving the collective needs of its members and the tensions implicit in its function as an intermediary in the implementation of Indones_ian develop- ment policies. Adat and Dinas will be of general interest to social, cultural, and economic anthro- pologists as well as to those with specialist interests in Indonesian culture and politics, the ethnography of Bali, rural development, and the role of local institutions in social change. Jacket illustration: Banjar ritual preparations (Photograph by Carol Warren) Oxrd University Press ISBN 0 19 588609 7 248 x 154 mm 400 pp. 13 tables 4 figs. 2 maps 25 b/w illus.