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IN A COUNTRY where talk of conspiracies is often a national pastime, the deepest, sometimes darkest, secrets have long been held by Indonesia's State Intelligence Agency (Badan Intelijen Negara, or BIN). Whether targeting communist diplomats, foreign terrorists, or domestic dissidents, BIN and its precursor organizations have been the covert spearhead of the nation's security policy. Here, for the first time, this secretive agency is exposed in INTEL: Inside Indonesia's Intelligence Service by noted author Ken Conboy. Drawing from exclusive access to BIN's personnel and operational archives, Conboy examines the agents and their operations since BIN's founding fifty years ago, and sheds new l...
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Il y a quarante ans encore, la psychiatrie semblait ne s'intéresser qu'à la « folie », et l'« asile » était son symbole. Son domaine s'étend désormais des schizophrénies au marais du mal-être de masse. Ces formes d'intervention se sont disséminées dans le tissus social (école, prison, famille, etc.). Parallèlement les médicaments psychotropes sont devenus un trait du mode de vie de l'homme moderne et la conception même du trouble mental s'est radicalement modifiée avec les neurosciences. Le trouble mental est aujourd'hui une question sociale et politique autant que médicale ; elle concerne toutes les institutions, aussi bien la famille, l'école que l'entreprise. L'origina...
This empirically grounded work explores the emerging aspects of cultural politics in the world’s most populous Muslim nation. It engages with complex issues of cultural translation, localization and globalization from various perspectives through analyzing a diverse range of cultural forms, including government or palace-based celebrations, ceremonies and rituals, modern student theatre, and Islamic revival sessions. With its discussion of both old and new Islamic movements, alongside the contested religious interpretations of public cultural events, this book will be of interest not only to anthropologists, but also to scholars of religion, culture and sociology.
In Radical Traditions, author Andrew Clay McGraw shows how music kontemporer embodies the tensions between culture as represented and lived. Through a highly interdisciplinary approach this book presents an all-encompassing social and musical history of musik kontemporer.
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