...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005... ...duplicated, printed, distributed and sold without permission or agreement of the author. However, the name of the author must always be clearly indi... ...Making a communal living 43 * Childhood environments 45 * From village school to university 46 School of life 47 From villager to citizen 47... ...ered locality, village and municipal communities, even the national state, old- fashioned; the Finnish elite is now integrating its country into the E... ...nland also has the most museums, it has the world's largest collections of folklore, and research institutions are continuously collecting information... ... marriages end in divorce, an increasing number of children are abandoned, old people are excluded from useful society. More and more young people fal... ...istration, central offices, central organizations, central stores, central schools, shopping centres, cultural centres, centres of excellence and cent... ... like it used to be, but now we have good roads, many people go to work in town on building sites and other work. Getting around used to be difficult,... ... land and farming it belonged to Thai people. Thus, the Chinese settled in towns and became artisans and business people, e.g. acting as middlemen bet...

...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. Th...