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

By: Matti Sarmela

...hines and they are very good. Although I have heard that somewhere in the south, where they started using machines earlier, they have found that ric... ...d buffalo calves from Phayao, and then I raised them and sold them in the south, in Kamhaeng Phet. Today, hardly anyone in this village keeps buffalo... ...p in peace. There are no Thai style houses here, but there are some to the south from here. In the past, houses used to be a little like the Thai styl... ... metropolis of Bangkok and into the Gulf of Siam. It is the river on whose banks Siamese royal houses have built their capital cities. All the old dy... ...ways, and with the arrival of the rainy season, water overflowed the river banks and submerged the paddy fields. The rhythm of village life followed ... ...and on to the country's northern capital. The old city was situated on the banks of the river Wang. Today, the old wooden trading halls at the riversi... ...e road turns off to the north, to the Kew Lom irrigation dams and man-made lake, where the irrigation canals circling the plain originate. Off the Kew... ...tion in a Thai Peasant Community. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis. University of Washington. — 1968 a. Perspective on the Atomistic Type Society: Friendshi...

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