...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 ... ... A VILLAGE IN NORTHERN THAILAND ... ...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... ... plants like mango trees or fruit trees. One can only grow things on newly established teak plantations. So, just a year in each place, then the teak ... ... metropolis of Bangkok and into the Gulf of Siam. It is the river on whose banks Siamese royal houses have built their capital cities. All the old dy... ...ways, and with the arrival of the rainy season, water overflowed the river banks and submerged the paddy fields. The rhythm of village life followed ... ...ding on mountainsides, where a few forest villages, such as Ban Dong, were established. Up on the mountains, they met peoples engaged in swidden cult... ...and on to the country's northern capital. The old city was situated on the banks of the river Wang. Today, the old wooden trading halls at the riversi...

...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...