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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 ... ...rmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005 Ban Dong 1985 ... ...R DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ... Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ... Part II. COMMUNITY CULTURE Pa... ...Thailand. No science called cultural anthropology existed in those days in Finland. I looked along the Phahonlyothin to the railway crossing; the coun... ... city of Lampang, and archived everything in a Finnish museum. I came from Finland, wealthy Scandinavia, a country that believes in development, moder... ...ated. The latest great structural change took place after the Second World War. It marked the beginning of the era of technology based on oil, and tod... ...s will be faced possibly with even greater structural change than the post-war one. In today's scientific-technological visions of the future, mankind...

... community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village 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 t...

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