...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... ...reesura Wiwien Wongsansern Sayom Munnam interviewers had in their minds a lists of topics and questions I had prepared, which they could use to move ... ...hive of the . In this book, we hear the voices of local people, villagers. Listen to their talk about life, the past and the future. They have lived i... ...people don't like them today, like they don't like Thai music. Today, they listen to disco music and it annoys me. Foreign, Western culture has arrive... ...arely had furniture other than a cabinet with glazed doors, where bedding, dishes and the offering bowl were kept. Meals were taken on the floor sitti... ...ent to neighbouring villages. Today, the necessary food must be bought and dishes borrowed, and many dozen bottles of spirits bought, 10 bottles is th... ...devil. It is said that once when Buddha was teaching in the South near the Malaysian border, people there opposed him. One of these devils was there, ...

...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...