Southeast Asia: actual problems of development

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Fomicheva Elena

Thailand: The clash of traditional and modern perception of the world

ЮГО-ВОСТОЧНАЯ АЗИЯ: АКТУАЛЬНЫЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ РАЗВИТИЯ, 2011, №16, 202-211

Рубрика: РАЗДЕЛ 2. ИДЕОЛОГИЯ, ИСТОРИЯ, КУЛЬТУРА, ПОЛИТИКА, ЭКОНОМИКА ОТДЕЛЬНЫХ СТРАН

 
Annotation: The author considers the problem of social and cultural collision of traditional and modern perception of the world of a Thai taking for an example a movie Uncle Boonmee who can Recall his Past Lives. The analyses of the plot and creative approach enables to evaluate the ideas of life and death, karma, man and Nature, mysticism and reality in the Thai world. The movie stresses problems of a Thai living in the situation of contradictions between tradition and modernity, village and city.

Keywords: TRADITIONAL PERCEPTION OF A MAN AND NATURE, TRADITION AND MODERNITY, BUDDISM, ANIMISM KARMA, NATURE, MYSTICISM

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