...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 ... ...ving, village landscapes, different languages and dialects, different folk music, the whole diversity of local cultures that has existed on Earth. The... ...lopment cannot end in anything other than perfection, finalization. In the 1970s, the villagers of this book lived in an almost self-sufficient agrari... ...ther here in the village. In the evenings, we used to walk along the road, musicians used to play old folk instruments and the others follow them, dan... ... used to collect money for the temple or celebrate for other reasons. Play music, sing and dance it was great fun. Today, you don't see such things an... .... Thus, the number of houses had almost doubled since the beginning of the 1970s, but the population remained almost the same. The village is densely ... ...c jams. The irrigation network was constructed in the village in the early 1970s, and at the same time, division of land was verified for taxation pur...

...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...