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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

... * 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 ... ...ple monks 108 * Ordination of monks 110 Power of the community 113 Human being in a village community 113 * Life of a good person 115 * Fa... ...usted by their work and using more and more psychiatric drugs and alcohol. Human environment contains ever more risks, security systems, iron fencing.... ...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... ...such as Amnesty International, have deemed executions to contravene human rights. In his statements (e.g. Bangkok Post 2.3.2003), the Prime Minister...

...ryday lives of local people, and how they cope under conditions of a constant flux of change, what they think about life, the future, and the fate of human beings after death....

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