... Translation © Annira Silver Original book: Matti Sarmela, Kohtalon lait eivät katoa. Elämää Pohjois-Thaimaan kylissä. ... ... Translation © Annira Silver Original book: Matti Sarmela, Kohtalon lait eivät katoa. Elämää Pohjois-Thaimaan kylissä. Publ... ...hor. However, the name of the author must always be clearly indicated. Matti Sarmela Layout Hemmo Vattulainen Helsink... ...However, the name of the author must always be clearly indicated. Matti Sarmela Layout Hemmo Vattulainen Helsinki 2005... ...l 177 * Bodhi-tree festival 180 Dangers of life 182 Attraction of sex tourism 182 * Fated to contract Aids 183 * Drugs and the village commun... ...hailand churned out by modern information industry tells us only about sex tourism, drugs, Aids, child labour... as if the Western reader only wants t... ...wasn't surfaced yet. If you went to do your errands, you had to wait for a bus for a long time at the roadside, same when you wanted to come back. The... ...to go to the city several times. We had to walk to the highway and get the bus there. We had movies here only occasionally. Usually, if we went to tow... ...come lost, and been unable to return before he awoke. Finnish ancient folk poetry includes a song apparently about a shaman who remained forever in a ...

...ge Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the 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 decad...