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...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...

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...Thailand. No science called cultural anthropology existed in those days in Finland. I looked along the Phahonlyothin to the railway crossing; the coun... ...ed material on people's lives in three villages in the province and in its centre, the city of Lampang, and archived everything in a Finnish museum. I... ... 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... ...d, the countryside is threatened by desertion, as people move into 'growth centres', metropoles. International development has rendered locality, vill... ... offices, central organizations, central stores, central schools, shopping centres, cultural centres, centres of excellence and centres of well-being.... ... of money. When someone had built a new house and there was a housewarming party, they used to hire dancers for it. Then the men could dance with them... ...r or common. The relatives and parents did get together for the engagement party, and I had to pay a certain amount for the girl. I was obliged to giv... ...e was being built by a new son-in-law, by gathering together, the working party accepted him into the company of the married men of the village. At ...

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...d final grievance procedures. Possibilities include conciliation (a third party bring management and labour together to try and solve the problems o... ... together to try and solve the problems on their own), mediation (a third party makes nonbonding suggestions to the parties) and arbitration (a thir... ...rty makes nonbonding suggestions to the parties) and arbitration (a third party makes final, binding decisions), or Peer Review Panels – where the m... ... work and exercise their entrepreneurial skills. By establishing day care centres for their children. By providing micro- credits (microfinanace). By... ... work and exercise their entrepreneurial skills. By establishing day care centres for their children. By providing microcredits (women have proven t... ... work and exercise their entrepreneurial skills. By establishing day care centres for their children. By providing micro- credits. By giving women sp... ...e class is often irreversibly hindered by an all-pervasive brain drain. Politicians in some countries decry this trend and deride those emigrating.... ...t of countries with liberalized labour markets - Britain, Spain, Ireland, Finland. The ECB brags that employment in the euro zone has been rising fa... ... Americans started a new business - compared to less than 1.5 percent in Finland. Entrepreneurship accounted for one third of the difference in eco...

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...ons). But, libraries are not only repositories of knowledge and community centres. They are also dominant promoters of new knowledge technologies. T... ...off without it. Enter Amazon. Its "Honour System" is licenced to third party web sites (such as Bartleby.com and SatireWire). It allows people to... ... unhealthy posture. "Internetophobia" is already discernible. People (and politicians) talk about how unsafe the Internet is and about its possible ... ...egin to improve their image: provide free access to schools and community centres, bankroll internet literacy classes, freely distribute contents an... ...e-publishing applications leader - has just expanded an e-book technology centre by adding 200 e-book editors. This happened in Montego Bay, Jamaica... ...ickiness and attract monetizable "eyeballs". In the absence of such third party accreditation, the Internet risks both irrelevance and disrepute. ... ...s the vending of reference goes. Many people will subscribe through third-party organizations such as Internet service providers with whom we have e... ... unhealthy posture. "Internetophobia" is already discernible. People (and politicians) talk about how unsafe the Internet is and about its possible ... ...d to competition - both domestic or foreign. The most extreme example is Finland, where competition is completely free, no licensing is required an...

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...on to its value and valuation (as measured by an objective, neutral, disinterested party). This is true especially when agents (management) are not... ...come ever more frequent, from the Asian crisis in 1997 right up to the World Trade Centre attacks. Moreover, it is not just price gyrations that ha... ...e of securities borrowed from brokers who, in turn, usually borrow them from third party investors. The short seller pays a negotiated fee for the ... ...my of an entire major city, Bitola. After much wrangling and recriminations - many politicians seem to have benefited from the scam - the governmen... ...y but the politically well-connected, to cronies, and family members of influential politicians - they often end up fostering a bubble. South Korean... ...rs are always Democrats, two Republicans, and the Chairman belongs to the political party of the President. I am curious to see if this same agreeme... ...re in its telecom. Even municipalities and regional authorities are emulating the centre. The city of Tallinn, for instance, owns a golden share i... ...r worse than their parents — is weaker in America than in Denmark, Austria, Norway, Finland, Canada, Sweden, Germany, Spain and France. In America,... ... The profits should be used only when the firm is divided to clear profit and loss centres, which could be completely disentangled from each other....

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... the lady of Ardvoirlich, into the old church of Balquidder, nearly in the centre of their country, where the Laird of MacGregor and all his clan bein... ...ctory he had obtained, and Kilpont and his comrade Ardvoirlich were of the party. After returning to their quarters, Ardvoirlich, who seemed still to ... ...duct and prin- ciples contradict. That he was obliged to join the opposite party, was merely a matter of safety, while Kilpont had so many powerful fr... ...ith spectacles on nose, conning over the newspapers to a circle of village politicians, explaining mili- tary terms, and aiding the comprehension of h... ...xtreme dislike to the Presbyterian model. In the West Highlands the ruling party numbered many enemies; but the power of these disaffected clans was s... ...nches across the western horizon, gleamed ruddy in the setting sun. In the centre of this wood rose the towers, or rather the chimneys, of the house, ... ...t the upper end of this magnificent gallery stood the Marquis himself, the centre of a splendid circle of Highland and Lowland gentlemen, all richly d... ...ot the rule of our foreign service in respect I remember the regi- ment of Finland cuirassiers reprimanded, and their kettle- drums taken from them, b...

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...ce in cheese-cloth in the moonlight. She was taken to a certi- fied Studio Party, with beer, cigarettes. bobbed hair, and a Russian Jewess who sang th... ...said Bea. IV The recently built house of Sam Clark, in which was given the party to welcome Carol, was one of the largest in Gopher Prairie. It had a ... ...aited till Kennicott should rescue her. The 47 Sinclair Lewis rest of the party waited for the miracle of being amused. Harry and Juanita Haydock, Ri... ...ughed, and her fella say he vos president and he going to make me queen of Finland, and Ay stick a fedder in may hair and say Ay bane going to go to v... ...pleasurable activities, instead of letting them fall into the hands of the politicians.” “I don’t suppose it will take more than thirty or forty years... ...ding was good enough for us when we were kids! I hate these would-be women politicians, don’t you?” IV The first week of March had given promise of sp... ...hearted. When Champ and I came here we teamed-it with an ox-cart from Sauk Centre to Gopher Prairie, and there was nothing here then but a stockade an... ...s. The sooner she’s sent to the school for incorrigible girls down at Sauk Centre, the better for all and—Won’t you just have a cup of coffee, Carol d... ... sins as Sam did. But that night they had at the flat a man just back from Finland. II She was on the Powhatan roof with the captain. At a table, some...

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...ind: I don’t say that an Englishman has not other duties. He has a duty to Finland and a duty to Macedonia. But what sane man can deny that an English... ... an Englishman’s first duty is his duty to Ireland? Unfortunately, we have politicians here more unscrupulous than Bobrikoff, more bloodthirsty than A... ...l that the unfortunate and patri- otic young man who avenged the wrongs of Finland on the Russian tyrant was perfectly right from his own point of vie... .... It has often struck me as a most re- markable circumstance that the only party in parliament which shows the genuine old English character and spiri... ...ment which shows the genuine old English character and spirit is the Irish party. Look at its independence, its determination, its defiance of bad Gov... ... to say a word that would shock a Nonconformist! not you. The Conservative party today is the only one that’s not priestridden—excuse the expression, ... ...es and real joys among real people: solid English life in London, the very centre of the world. You will find your work cut out for you keeping T om’s... ... capital while you slave like bees for it and revenge yourselves by paying politicians and penny newspa- pers out of your small wages to write article...

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...jects under her protection, and placing herself at the head of a religious party which it was his aim and en- deavour to extirpate. In Germany, the sc... ... one another’s existence, acquired through the Ref- ormation an attractive centre of interest, and began to be united by new political sympathies. And... ... motives suffi- cient to prevent the Emperor from declaring in favour of a party which strove to annihilate the papal see, and also to induce him to s... ... admitted in the church, as in noble families? Were the pretensions of one party to be favoured by a prescription from times when the claims of the ot... ...cal abuses, and a common disapprobation of its dogmas, formed a sufficient centre of union for the Prot- estants; but not content with this, they soug... ...cally attached to him. His army, composed of Swedes, Ger- mans, Livonians, Finlanders, Scots and English, by its devoted obedience to their leader, is... ...le. On the right, the Swedes drew up in a double line, the infantry in the centre, divided into such small battalions as could be easily and rapidly m... ...elded this post of honour. Exasperated at their retreat, he now led on his Finlanders to the attack, thinking, by their northern courage, to shame the... ..., had fallen upon the enemy’s left. The first impetuous shock of the heavy Finland cuirassiers dispersed the lightly-mounted Poles and Croats, who wer...

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...ove him inconsistent, if not insincere. This is the prevailing attitude of politicians and literary men. Must one conclude that the mass of mankind ha... ...o myself as a vast temple, in which the light falls from above in the very centre. To meet together all must go towards the light. There we shall find... ... a Russified Pole, and his wife – who had invited her and her husband to a party in their house that evening. V THE GUESTS at the party had tea and ca... ...gs with them. Among the nobles of his province he belonged to the advanced party, and was more inclined to liberal than conservative views, always tak... ...the risk of being hanged himself for insubordination. VII AT AN EVENING PARTY at the Eropkins, Mahin, who was paying attentions to the two young da... ... be?’ I thought, and went towards the sound by a slippery path through the centre of the field. Walking about a hundred paces, I began to distin guis... ...e and more depressed, and in this gloomy mood she went to visit an aunt in Finland. The fresh scenery and surroundings, the people strangely different... ...the veranda, gay with flowers, he walked through the flower garden, in the centre of which was a raised round bed, with rings of red, white, and blue ...

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...id he was possessed. He had heard of ships, too, beating up the gulf of Finland against a head wind and having a ship heave in sight astern, ove... ...r a wind as could blow, and all stud- ding sails out, and find she was from Finland. ‘‘Oh, no!’’ said he; ‘‘I’ve seen too much of them men to wa... ...ing as they appeared to be by starlight. They seemed to bear off towards the centre of the island, and were green and well wooded, with some large, an... ... of the sandal wood I obtained, and learned that it grew on the hills in the centre of the island. - 22 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana... ...m the sides of the hills. One stream of considerable size flows through the centre of the lawn upon which the houses are built, and furnishes an easy... ...heir charge, and, for the most part, men of desperate fortunes—broken down politicians and soldiers—whose only object is to retrieve their conditio... ...oot of the ladder and in desperate circumstances, just as a new political party is started by such men in our own country. The only object, of cour... ...l, it was not ten o’clock, and the night was long before us, when one of the party produced an old pack of Spanish cards from his monkey jacket pocket... ... this we escaped, having had a pretty good siege with the wooding. The water party were gone three days, during which time they narrowly escaped being...