...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 ... ...duplicated, printed, distributed and sold without permission or agreement of the author. However, the name of the author must always be clearly indi... ...in this strange country? Where would we live? This had to be lunacy. I had set off to carry out cultural anthropological fieldwork in Thailand. No sci... ...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-Kamolmatayakul Annira Silver local culture. The collection contains few films and videos, although in 1999 I recorded 12 hours of video in all, usi... ...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... ...ng among all nations. I found the villages of this book in Lampang, having set foot on the Phahonlyothin road. For me, this land, Lampang Province and... ...used to walk. Today, everything must be so easy. Today, people go to watch films in the evenings. People are working all the time, they have no time f...

...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...

... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Sea... ... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...l Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...s what much of science and most of education is all about. If we can get a better grasp of the appropriate sciences and develop an appropriate set of... ...c system in the brain often takes priority over the logical section of the brain. This has an effect on our buying habits, our preferences for films ... ...und toy. He inserted electrodes into the rats‘ pleasure centers then showed his rats how to trip a switch and get an electric ‗high.‘ Then he set up... ...never have dreamed of. ―In another university study students were told to administer electric shocks to others who were to learn word lists.... ...? ―In our human species we don‘t need a partner for an orgasm. We can masturbate like many animals do. Is that why Abraham Maslow listed... ... And in spite of the strength with which they are held, both are rooted in non-provable assumptions!‖ -- ―And violence sure sells in films,...

...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 C...