... Translation © Annira Silver Original book: Matti Sarmela, Kohtalon lait eivät katoa. Elämää Pohjois-Thaimaan kylissä. ... ...hor. However, the name of the author must always be clearly indicated. Matti Sarmela Layout Hemmo Vattulainen Helsink... ... Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY ... ...ploughing, I'm sure they will disappear. In the past, we used to only grow indigenous varieties, but today people buy improved seed varieties with a y... ... your lifetime? Will buffalo disappear altogether? What about seed grain? indigenous varieties are cheaper. In the old days, we just used to use catt... ...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... ... and their number grows from one set of figures to the next. The country's indigenous researchers have now tried to curb the writing and found that if...

...ge Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between 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 decad...