The Mythical Legends of Thung Ku La Ronghai: Ecological Narrativeand Social and Cultural Negotiation

Abstract

This research aimed to study role of the mythical Legends of Thung Ku La as the most
effective media for fighting and negotiation in Social and Culture within Thung Kula Ronghai area
with diversity of culture and society of those who lived together in this area.
Mythical legend was the most effective role for space possession and space construction
including resources such as water, forest, soil,halite etc. by using the mythical narrative to manage
the area to suit identity of each community. What a researcher wanted to investigate was that how
the mythical legend appeared in the area of Thung Ku La Rong Hai was managed for fighting and
negotiation for the change of society and culture as well as negotiation with various powers that
entered to the community of Thung Ku La RongHai by using theory of sacred space construction
and social construction as framework to explain.
From the research, It was found that ecological narrative affected the social and cultural
negotiation in Thung Ku La Ronghai in 4 aspects: 1) fighting and negotiation with Buddhism; 2)
fighting and negotiation with capitalism; 3) fighting and negotiation with tourism; 4) fighting and
negotiation with currency of development which indicated the role of mythical narrative affectied
the operation of fighting with power within the community of Thung Ku La Ronghai.