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

By: Matti Sarmela

... * Chinese New Year 175 Songkran 176 New Year of Thai culture 176 * Programme of the Water Festival 177 * Bodhi-tree festival 180 Dangers of... ...mily * I don't believe everything sorcerers say * What Buddha taught us Pictures 54-93 Supernatural environment The invisible world 94... ...e information on Thailand churned out by modern information industry tells us only about sex tourism, drugs, Aids, child labour... as if the Western r... ...bout 70 hours of field tapes. During 1997-1999, , an undergraduate, joined us, starting interviewing in Ban Srii Muod Klao, and Wiwien continued the w... ... things about how people live all around the globe. There are all kinds of programmes. Whoever has the money, it's a good thing to buy and you have so... ...u have something to boast about when you own a television. I think that TV programmes are mostly good. It's our human nature that as long as we live, ... ... and pulls a trailer, the iron-spiked wheels just need to be exchanged for rubber tyres. Table 6 shows that ploughing machines have not increased in t... ...y are expensive. When I was a child, we'd play a coin tossing game or with rubber bands, we either blew them or tossed them. We also used to play at s... ...um growing has ceased, but continues in Myanmar and Laos, and in any case, synthetic drugs like amphetamine have displaced opium. (49 In Asian countri...

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