...Part 1 of a short story series set in mythic Viking Age Finland. Somewhere far in the north, in the middle of a dense forest, two girls have embarked on a sacred journey: a journey that is to end their carefree days among the children of their tribe. Grim as their world is, the ...

...Thailand. No science called cultural anthropology existed in those days in Finland. I looked along the Phahonlyothin to the railway crossing; the coun... ... city of Lampang, and archived everything in a Finnish museum. I came from Finland, wealthy Scandinavia, a country that believes in development, moder... ...ion, globalization, a planetary future. In Western development statistics, Finland is near the top, currently the leading country in competition for s... ...in competition for state-of-the-art technology. In international rankings, Finland is the least corrupt country in the world, an efficient high-tech c... ...ety's problems should be resolved by scientific-technological development. Finland has wanted to imitate global development in everything, to free the... ...to free consuming man from the lifestyle of former village communities. In Finland, the countryside is threatened by desertion, as people move into 'g... ...e European Union, a continental state, part of the European United States. Finland also has the most museums, it has the world's largest collections o... ...d start drinking or using drugs ever younger. In many countries, including Finland, young girls of the new, free generation have adopted behaviour pat... ...res, cultural centres, centres of excellence and centres of well-being. In Finland, for example, village schools, shops and other local structures hav...

...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 three villages in Lampang Province, and...

...ompanies have at least nine lives, it would seem. Nokia was founded in southwestern Finland, in 1865, by a mining engineer, one, Frederik Idestam, a... ...eceded by the Aztecs, ancient China, feudal Japan, the Polynesian islands, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Canada, and India, and all the ... ...en repealed within 10-20 years from their introduction. Some prohibition laws - Finland is an example - were the result of lobbying by breweries...

... subsequent years he was awarded honorary PhDs in the United States, Canada, Finland, Russia, and Hungary. In recognition of his commitment to globa...

...ather peculiarly fanciful set of stories are adapted from the Roumanians; others are from the Baltic shores; others from sunny Sicily; a few are from Finland, and Iceland, and Japan, and Tunis, and Portugal. No doubt many children will like to look out these places on the map, and study their mountains, rivers, soil, products, and fiscal policies, in the geography books. T...

...conomies) Austria; Belgium; Bulgaria; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Ireland; Italy; Latvia;... ...CD (30 economies) Australia; Austria; Belgium; Canada; Czech Republic; Denmark; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Iceland; Ireland; Israe...

...by Prof. Lauri Ojala & Dr. Harri Lorentz of the Turku School of Economics, Finland in their presentation Towards an improved methodology in logistics...

...t of countries with liberalized labour markets - Britain, Spain, Ireland, Finland. The ECB brags that employment in the euro zone has been rising fa... ... Americans started a new business - compared to less than 1.5 percent in Finland. Entrepreneurship accounted for one third of the difference in eco...

...74 Ethiopia 75 Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) 76 Faroe Islands 77 Fiji 78 Finland 79_ France 81 French Guiana 83 French Polynesia 84 Gabon 85 Gambi... ...INTELSAT, INTERPOL, ISO, ITU, SPF, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO 78 Finland Economy GDP: $1.099 billion (1986 est), $1,254 per capita; annual... ...th USSR; Helsinki is northernmost national capital on European continent 79 Finland (continued) People Population: 4,939,880 (July 1987), average ann... ...e) Organized labor: 80% of labor force Government Official name: Republic of Finland Type: republic Capital: Helsinki Administrative divisions: 12 pro... ...ansport equipment, food products Major trade partners: (1980) Denmark 49.4%, Finland 9.5%, FRG 8.1%, US 6.3%, UK 2.9% Monetary conversion rate: 7.37 D...

...r worse than their parents — is weaker in America than in Denmark, Austria, Norway, Finland, Canada, Sweden, Germany, Spain and France. In America,...

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