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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 ... ...R DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ...te a book of the same title ( ), published in Finnish (1979; 1985). At the time, I was interested in the way the structures that had maintained the vi... ...ision of production - occupational differentiation - industrial concept of time, schedules Centralizing national culture - metropolitan structures - c... ...rice varieties were developed, hailed as bringing a 'green revolution' and saving the world's developing countries from famine.(9 Hierarchy of rice. ... ... offer their produce for sale. Young farmers in particular have no capital savings, thus they are forced to borrow in order to buy seed, fertilizers a... ...nally an angry phii would come and take a child. Although we played during daylight, the evil spirit would take someone every now and then. One boy hi... ...77. Thai Traditional Medicine. A preliminary investigation. Ph. D. thesis, Australian National University. Canberra. Murdock, George Peter (ed.) 1... ...k, T. H. (ed.) 1967. Thailand. Social and Economic Studies in Development. Australian National Univ. Press & Duke Univ. Press, Durham, N.C. — 1970. ...

...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 decades. The book also speaks through the voices of villagers themse...

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