...a, Kohtalon lait eivät katoa. Elämää Pohjois-Thaimaan kylissä. Published by the Finnish Literature Society and the Finnish Anthropological Society 2... ...tly the leading country in competition for state-of-the-art technology. In international rankings, Finland is the least corrupt country in the world, ... ...ficient high-tech culture, where all society's problems should be resolved by scientific-technological development. Finland has wanted to imitate glob... ...le to choose their future, to hang on to their local structures, their own ethnic landscape, the customs of local communities and human values? The in... ...at functioned within their own geographical environment. Thus were created ethnic cultures, their distinguishing features; the many thousands of human... ...umerous side alleys and lanes criss- cross the main lanes, twisting around groups of houses and village backwaters, but always ending up re-joining th... ...lectricity arrived in the village in the early 1980s. When arable land was divided for permanent private ownership, the village still had few houses, ... ... swidden forests have gone.Ascending from the plain, the mountains are now divided into economic zones. Where the irrigation network ends, industrial ... ...eek opportunities to manage together. In the cold season, villagers sit in groups in the mornings in the sun, warming themselves. By and by, the young...