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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 ... ...R DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ... A VILLAGE IN NORTHERN THAILAND ... ... * Should we have more development Villages and houses Place for a human community 51 Culture of the river valleys 51 * Lampang Province an... ...21 Pictures 124-173 References 174 II. COMMUNITY CULTURE Being human (interviews) 6 How we were married * In the fire * We meet dea... ... Hundredth day memorial rites 132 Message of death 133 Final passage of human life 133 * The deceased in kinship culture 134 * The deceased in ... ...ople. More and more village farmers have found that they have scarcely any rights in their world markets-dominated environments, and they make almost ... ...ist their relatives. On the other hand, the media fuel new ideas about the rights of modern man. Educated, employed women and men may live as singles ... ...ly afforded children the position of being born in wedlock and inheritance rights; today, such rights are also confirmed officially by registering 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 three villages in Lampang Province, and the changes in villagers' lives over three decades. The book also speaks through the voices of villagers themse...

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