• Cover Image

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... ...duplicated, printed, distributed and sold without permission or agreement of the author. However, the name of the author must always be clearly indi... ... Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Cultu... ... old- fashioned; the Finnish elite is now integrating its country into the European Union, a continental state, part of the European United States. Fi... ...s are continuously collecting information on the lives of modern Finns. In European welfare states, an individual's life and future must be secure, pl... ...the many thousands of human forms of living, village landscapes, different languages and dialects, different folk music, the whole diversity of local ... ... is being established, evidently to become a continental state akin to the European Union in the future. Today we ask, what does a global person ident...

...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...

Read More