...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005 ... ...R DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ... A VILLAGE IN NORTHERN THAILAND ... ... .............................. I. 55 5. Popularity of house types 1982-2000 .... I. 66 6. Means of transport ....................... ...onal, globalizing. In Asia, too, a common free trade area, ASEAN, is being established, evidently to become a continental state akin to the European U... ...ed grant assistance from the (1972-73, 1984-85 and 1997-98), the (1972 and 1982), and the . The has contributed to the cost of translating the book. I... ... plants like mango trees or fruit trees. One can only grow things on newly established teak plantations. So, just a year in each place, then the teak ... ...ding on mountainsides, where a few forest villages, such as Ban Dong, were established. Up on the mountains, they met peoples engaged in swidden cult... ...at least seven cinemas, and it was also common practice for pharmaceutical companies to tour the villages with their cinema vans to show free films on...

...worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based on a longitudinal field study, he wrote his description of three villages in Lampang Province, and the changes in villagers' lives over three decades. The book also speaks through the voices of villagers themse...