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

By: Matti Sarmela

... committed by juveniles; blind destruction, as if killing was just play, a computer game, or a unique, exciting, extreme experience. A final experienc... ...dividualistic morality National cultural industry - occupational culture - media culture (TV) - mass events (festivals) - cultural services Meritocrac... ...cial national language - political world views - national utopias National media lore - national art and entertainment - consumer culture - national h... ...ple altogether in all three villages, accumulating about 70 hours of field tapes. During 1997-1999, , an undergraduate, joined us, starting interviewi... ...f Lampang plains villages belong to the yuan people and the original field tapes are in the local dialect ( ). The interviews from the years 1984-85 w... ... collections of the in Helsinki, and archive copies of the field interview tapes are deposited in the recordings archive of the . In this book, we hea... ... been built below the concrete bridge, and there are a couple of rainwater storage tanks up on the slope, but they do not resolve the cultivation prob... ...day, artisans do not sit at workbenches, but on the floor. When I bought a computer in a shop, it, too, was assembled on the floor of the shop. At fir... ...vided in the villages. Villagers did not yet have mobile phones. There are computers in schools, and the government considers it important that young ...

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