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

By: Matti Sarmela

... Perspectives of village communities ......... II. 50 11. Basic wedding format .............................. II. 58 12. Strata of world views... ...kind is about to move into the era of hydrogen power, to a superculture of digital, automation or genetic technology, development moves to the start o... ...s - universal know-how and education Transnational production structures - digital technology, space technology - automation, robotics, biotechnology ... ...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... ... and videos, although in 1999 I recorded 12 hours of video in all, using a digital camera. The corpus of fieldwork material is archived in the collect... ... 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... ...lso invited to housewarming parties, and they follow the same celebratory format as other occasions where monks are present. The celebration begins i... ...e international techno-system, within which cultural elements - production formats, consciousness technology and fashion trends - converge in all comm...

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