...ää Pohjois-Thaimaan kylissä. Published by the Finnish Literature Society and the Finnish Anthropological Society 2004. ISBN 951-746-603-X (SKS) ;... ... This work may be freely quoted, copied, duplicated, printed, distributed and sold without permission or agreement of the author. However, the name ... ...onal, globalizing. In Asia, too, a common free trade area, ASEAN, is being established, evidently to become a continental state akin to the European U... ...es and they are like summer cottages, holiday homes of the rich. We have a television set and the young people watch it, but I don't care to watch. So... ...do you like most? watch it. I stopped watching TV many years ago. I think television is a good thing. You can see the news from our home country and ... ...trial life: an excavator business, two large car showrooms and two service stations. And at the start of the village road, where just a small brick fa... ...sinesses, schools, banks, and a concentration of motor dealers and service stations. Since 1997, the heart of the area has been occupied by a huge sup... ...and health centres. In the 1990s, the country’s 488 national radio and TV channels have from time to time transmitted a bulleting every hour against ... ...ions, new environmental technology and everyday culture, folklore of world channels. Final culture is (2) without boundaries. It is inhabited by man w...

...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. The author draws surprising parallels between the worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland...