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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005... ...duplicated, printed, distributed and sold without permission or agreement of the author. However, the name of the author must always be clearly indi... ... Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Cultu... ...d in its centre, the city of Lampang, and archived everything in a Finnish museum. I came from Finland, wealthy Scandinavia, a country that believes i... ...tly the leading country in competition for state-of-the-art technology. In international rankings, Finland is the least corrupt country in the world, ... ...imitate global development in everything, to free the country to unlimited international competition, to centralize, privatize, democratize. It has im... ...threatened by desertion, as people move into 'growth centres', metropoles. International development has rendered locality, village and municipal comm... ...ental state, part of the European United States. Finland also has the most museums, it has the world's largest collections of folklore, and research i... ...rs' strength and courage in living out their own destiny will never cease. Museum of Cultures Finnish Literature Society To the reader. For my field ...

...The book is a descriptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. Th...

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