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Adrian Vickers

Bio: Adrian Vickers is an academic researcher from University of Sydney. The author has contributed to research in topics: Indonesian & Colonialism. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 51 publications receiving 1072 citations. Previous affiliations of Adrian Vickers include University of Wollongong & Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.


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01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the colonial soil, the culture of the countryside, the revolution, the atomic age, the age of globalisation, and the crisis of crisis.
Abstract: 1. Our colonial soil 2. Cultures of the countryside 3. 'To assail the colonial machine' 4. The revolution 5. Living in the atomic age 6. From old to new orders 7. Terror and development in a happy land 8. Age of globalisation, age of crisis.

385 citations

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01 Jun 1997
TL;DR: Bali: A Paradise Created as discussed by the authors is a travelogue about the island of Bali, a true paradise that has attracted tourists from all parts of the world over the decades.
Abstract: The Island of Bali—a true paradise is explored in this classic travelogue. From the artists and writers of the 1930s to the Eat, Pray, Love tours so popular today, Bali has drawn hoards of foreign visitors and transplants to its shores. What makes Bali so special, and how has it managed to preserve its identity despite a century of intense pressure from the outside world? Bali: A Paradise Created bridges the gap between scholarly works and more popular travel accounts. It offers an accessible history of this fascinating island and an anthropological study not only of the Balinese, but of the paradise–seekers from all parts of the world who have traveled to Bali in ever–increasing numbers over the decades. This Bali travelogue shows how Balinese culture has pervaded western film, art, literature and music so that even those who've never been there have enjoyed a glimpse of paradise. This authoritative, much–cited work is now updated with new photos and illustrations, a new introduction, and new text covering the past twenty years.

232 citations

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04 Jun 1992
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present alternative formulations of psychosocial aspects of Balinese culture, their aim being to establish a more correct and valid portrayal of the life of the Balinese.
Abstract: Published exactly 50 years after Gregory Bateson's and Margaret Mead's "Balinese Character" (which still stands as a standard reference on Balinese culture), this study of the Balinese people - a collaboration between a Western psychiatrist with wide experience of Balinese culture and a Western-trained Balinese psychiatrist - finds their basic assumptions inherently flawed. The study concludes that their book presents an inaccurate and misleading characterization of the Balinese as they were 50 years ago. In addition to this critique, the authors present their alternative formulations of psychosocial aspects of Balinese culture, their aim being to establish a more correct and valid portrayal of the life of the Balinese.

58 citations

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01 Oct 1987
TL;DR: Balinese were vitally interested in the cosmopolitan culture of the rest of Indonesia, and recognized a common appeal to origins in the great Hindu-Buddhist Javanese kingdom of Majapahit.
Abstract: Western scholarship has come to regard Bali as somewhat apart from the rest of Indonesia, a Hindu island in a sea of Islam. Between the early sixteenth century, when Hindu kingdoms ceased to have any influence in Java, and the Dutch conquest of Bali from 1846 to 1908, relations between Balinese and Muslims were anything but straightforward. Wars between Balinese and Islamic kingdoms were matched by degrees of accommodation and synthesis with Islam on various levels of Balinese society. Balinese were vitally interested in the cosmopolitan culture of the rest of Indonesia, and recognized a common appeal to origins in the great Hindu-Buddhist Javanese kingdom of Majapahit.

37 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism are discussed. And the history of European ideas: Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 721-722.

13,842 citations

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09 Aug 2011
TL;DR: The historical record indicates that nonviolent campaigns have been more successful than armed campaigns in achieving ultimate goals in political struggles as discussed by the authors, even when used against similar opponents, and that such campaigns can be used against the same opponents.
Abstract: The historical record indicates that nonviolent campaigns have been more successful than armed campaigns in achieving ultimate goals in political struggles, even when used against similar opponents...

1,187 citations

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TL;DR: The origin of the Black Act was discussed in this article, with a focus on the Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of Black Act (1916) and the origins of the black act.
Abstract: (1976). Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act. History: Reviews of New Books: Vol. 4, No. 10, pp. 225-225.

321 citations