...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... ...ncestors on memorial day, why similar white cord or twine is used in rites involving sorcerers, why beliefs involving the sorcerer, souls of the decea... ...st habitation of Thai peoples is deemed to be South China; due to constant wars, people from China were also still evacuated to Lampang as late as the... ...orthern mountains. Later in the 19th and 20th centuries, e.g. during civil wars in China, Chinese people have moved to Thailand. In Lampang, too, the ... ...evelopment feudalism can be checked by land reforms, revolutions and civil wars, but nothing can achieve the continuity of the community. The village...

...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...