...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005... ...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005 Ban... ...ää Pohjois-Thaimaan kylissä. Published by the Finnish Literature Society and the Finnish Anthropological Society 2004. ISBN 951-746-603-X (SKS) ;... ...* Theoretical perspectives 11 * Fieldwork and the research group 15 * To the reader 18 I. A VILLAGE IN NORTHERN THAILAND Environment o... ...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 ... ...e he was, but he died and now we await his rebirth as divine redeemer. The books say that he who is born dies, and when one dies, one is reborn. But I... ... Asia have emerged on plains of their own principal river, they have been related cultures and arch-enemies, separated from one another by the mounta... ...ing youth fashions. In the 1970s, long hair on young men was a hallmark of hippies; to villagers, a hippy meant a (foreign) drug user. The attitude t... ...1978. Lampang Reports. CINA. The Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies. Publications No. 5. Copenhagen. Ekachai Sanitsuda 1990. Behind the Smile: ...

...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 heale...