Scholars Room Review: Bali, 50 years of changes

Title of article (Indonesian)

Ulasan: Bali, 50 tahun Perubahan

Title of article (Balinese)

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Original title language

English

Title (other local language)

Author(s)

• Mary S. Zurbuchen

Subjects

• bali culture
• social pattern
• Bali life
• religious life

Title of Journal

Inside Indonesia

Volume and Issue number

146

Date of Publication

Page Numbers

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Link to whole article

https://www.insideindonesia.org/review-bali-50-years-of-changes

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• Bali

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• Bali
• 50 Years of Changes: A Conversation with Jean Couteau

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Abstract

In English

In Bali: 50 Years of Changes: A Conversation with Jean Couteau, Eric Buvelot and Jean Couteau have produced an intricate, sweeping, and controversial picture of Balinese consciousness, social patterns, and religious life, as well as Bali’s place within the national framework of Indonesia. It is doubtless the most ambitious attempt to present a holistic view of the island since Fred Eiseman, Jr.’s Bali: Sekala and Niskala (1990), or Adrian Vickers’ Bali: A Paradise Created (1989). Yet this is not a historical narrative, or the culmination of years of comprehensive research on a particular topic. Instead we find a series of transcribed conversations between two expatriates: Buvelot, a journalist based on the island since 1995, and Couteau, a renowned writer, social observer and commentator intimately involved with Bali since the 1970s.

In Balinese

In Indonesian

Bali: 50 Years of Changes: A Conversation with Jean Couteau, Eric Buvelot dan Jean Couteau telah menghasilkan gambaran yang rumit, menyapu, dan kontroversial tentang kesadaran, pola sosial, dan kehidupan keagamaan Bali, serta posisi Bali dalam kerangka nasional Indonesia. Tidak diragukan lagi, ini adalah upaya paling ambisius untuk menyajikan pemandangan pulau yang holistik sejak Fred Eiseman, Jr.'s Bali: Sekala and Niskala (1990), atau Adrian Vickers' Bali: A Paradise Created (1989). Namun karya ini bukanlah narasi sejarah, atau puncak dari penelitian komprehensif bertahun-tahun tentang topik tertentu. Alih-alih, kami menemukan serangkaian transkrip percakapan antara dua ekspatriat: Buvelot, seorang jurnalis yang tinggal di pulau itu sejak 1995, dan Couteau, seorang penulis, pengamat sosial, dan komentator terkenal yang terlibat erat dengan Bali sejak 1970-an.