...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005 ... ...rmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005 Ban Dong 1985 ... ...R DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ... Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ...sorcerers 99 * Mediums of the deceased 101 Strata of local belief 102 Heritage of shamans 102 * Power of sorcerers 103 * From tradition to b... ...ng is a solution for the economic recession. I've been working on building sites in many surrounding villages. From now on, I daren't take any more bu... ...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, because the road... ...would build a Thai style house. We should cherish our old culture and Thai heritage. They are our valuable property. The bungalow style house looks fo... ... music Yupho 1960. Morton 1974; 1976. Phutharaporn 1998. 44. Davis 1976. Wales 1983. Rajadhon 1961; 1968. Tambiah 1969; 1970. Davis 1976. Klausner ...

... 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, 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 t...

...horus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with text reset, various emendations, and new... ...publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using the program Mellel, with an Apple iMac... ...n i What Is Religion? 1 Definitions Of Religion The Spiritual And Material Worlds Religious Belief Systems Versus An Emotional Response To God Religio... ...re of the population. Religious questioning is now a concern of the entire world, West and East alike. One sign of this is the extraordinary prolifera... ...ecause in Aboriginal culture many geographical areas are considered sacred sites and therefore off-limits to industrial or housing development. The di... ...em as a Jewish sect. As a consequence, Christians with no Jewish religious heritage gradually became the theological leaders in Christianity, and the ... ... blend with tradi- tional Jewish presuppositions. Of all the philosophical heritage of Greece and Rome it was Plato’s teachings, as taught and ex- pan... ...ng has been lost, and also, tourists have effaced or chipped away at these sites, removing valuable fragments which it has been hard for concerned ant... ...Aboriginal Religions, Nelen Yubu Missiological Unit, Kensington (New South Wales), 1986. Zaehner, R.C.: The Dawn and Twilight of Zoroastrianism, Weide...

...ildren we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social structure. It has been...

... be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congr... ...served mockery. “Want that insignia torn off your car, Dad? Then it would be in the public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main i... ...work in the only “Center for the Study of the Public Domain” in the academic world. I owe the biggest debt of grat- itude to my colleague Jennifer Jen... ...n Wilbanks at Science Commons, neither organization would exist today. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and another Creative Commons board member, al... ...te of property” is a concept that is much more important when we come to the world of ideas, information, expression, and invention. We want a lot of ... ...y of the information you need by wandering off into a strange click-trail of sites, amateur and professional, commercial and not, hobbyist and entrepr... ...e put forward best by Condorcet. This view is also an influential part of the heritage of the droits d’auteur, even if it is downplayed in its contempo... ... ___0 ___ 1 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 35 the nation’s literary heritage. While Macaulay is the best-remembered English skeptic from the ... .... Internet commerce itself was barely an idea, and some of the most exciting sites on the Web had pictures of coffeepots in university depart- ments f...

...ll depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent,...

... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...tion of light bending around the moon was discovered to be actually true, the world of Science swallowed his completely fallacious explanation for i... ...ts path, not attractive forces. What Einstein and the rest of the Scientific world did not realize was that in order to see any light rays coming f... ...ecame the lowest scavengers in the Serengeti Plains, who crept to the killing sites and did their butchery of animals they had not killed themselves ... ... selectively biased towards the dumbest, clumsiest idiots who left these dump sites. Oops... let’s not talk about that The creation of the first... ...in the 1st and 2 nd World Wars were a standing joke. Because their cultural heritage has taught them that 1,000 years of war, killing, brutality an... ...n how they were raised, how they learned, where they were born, their genetic heritage, etc.. Because professional sports are played mostly out of h... ...lessly fighting and warring with their immediate neighbors: Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and France, and Holland. Their addiction to beef and ale. The...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Waverley or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott, the Pen... ...gentle reader, have de- manded from me a dashing sketch of the fashionable world, a few anecdotes of private scandal thinly veiled, and if lusciously ... ...r Clippurse at the Hall occasioned much speculation in that portion of the world to which Waverley-Honour formed the centre: but the more judicious po... ...ld can be in aught believed, there had dwelt his ancestors, with all their heritage, since the days of the gracious King Duncan. CHAPTER VIII A SCOTTI... ...nt of turf, arranged four or five stools of huge and clumsy form, upon the sites which best suited the inequalities of her clay floor; and having, mor... ... The Jacobite sentiments were general among the western coun- ties, and in Wales. But although the great families of the Wynnes, the Wyndhams, and oth...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Professor by Charlotte Brontë, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...een doing I know not; but you shall hear, if you choose to listen, how the world has wagged with me. “First, after leaving Eton, I had an interview wi... ...——shire manufacturer. At the end of the six months she brought me into the world, and then herself left it without, I should think, much regret, as it... ... here and there mansions, similar to Crimsworth Hall, occupied agree- able sites on the hill-side; the country wore, on the whole, a cheerful, active,... ... of an invader; I have no friends; my troops wander broken in the hills of Wales; reckless robbers spoil my country; my subjects lie prostrate, their ... ...ing made by it sufficient to pay off some incumbrances by which the family heritage was burdened. I say he abides here, but I do not think he is resid...

...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvan... ...onfused negation of the broad beliefs and institutions which have been the heritage and social basis of humanity for immemorial years. This is as true... ...e built for between £4,000 and £5,000, excluding the cost of site, and his sites, which he would not choose for their conspicuousness, might aver- age... ...r and over again of such fragmentary schemes, headshakings over the vacant sites about Aldwych and the Strand, brilliant petty 140 An Englishman Look... ...ntry into great constituencies such as London or Ulster or Wessex or South Wales, each return- ing a score or more of members, and the establishment o... ...t by the representa- tives of, let us say, twenty great provinces, Ulster, Wales, Lon- don, for example, each returning from twelve to thirty mem- ber...

...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and t...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania St... ...y (after the process of tidying up), a little bowed, and receding from the world not because of weariness or misanthropy but for other reasons that ca... ...le to the mind and the heart of the artist. After all, the cre- ation of a world is not a small undertaking except perhaps to the divinely gifted. In ... ...ival nations of this continent, which, we are assured on all hands, is the heritage of democracy. In the ceremonial brother- hood of monarchs the real... ...f the Titanic. Yet, strange as it may appear to the ineffable hotel exqui- sites who form the bulk of the first-class Cross-At- lantic Passengers, peo... ...n; this was a real casualty of the sea. The indigna- tion of the New South Wales Premier flashed tele- graphically to Canada is perfectly uncalled-for... ...if it wanted to. And there is another thing the angry Premier of New South Wales does not know. It is this: that for a ship to float for fifteen minut...

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