...rmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005 Ban Dong 1985 ... ... Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ... Part II. COMMUNITY CULTURE Pa... ...ation 119 * How much is enough? 121 Pictures 124-173 References 174 II. COMMUNITY CULTURE Being human (interviews) 6 How we were marri... ...ated. The latest great structural change took place after the Second World War. It marked the beginning of the era of technology based on oil, and tod... ...s will be faced possibly with even greater structural change than the post-war one. In today's scientific-technological visions of the future, mankind... ... them to eat. But today, if you raise buffalo or pigs, they have to be fed special feedstuffs, it's expensive and difficult. Meat used to taste much b... ...houses of white-collar workers, too, the gate is always closed and a large German Shepherd dog patrols the yard behind the gate. The current ideal hou... ...e, hygiene and good manners has above all been a 19 th century European (German, bourgois, middle-class) human ideal (the advent of which in the Nor...

... community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village 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 t...