Molding a Figure : Constructing Reliability of the Mystical Legends in the Biography of Admiral Prince Abhakara of Chumphon during 1953-1960
Keywords:
Historiography, Biography, Prince of Chumphon, Mystical storyAbstract
This article studies the constructing reliability of the mystical legends about Admiral Prince Abhakara Kiartivongse’s belief in superstition by analyzing how each biographer affirmed the reliability of the story at his time from the Letter from Luang Raksarajasup in 1953, the first work relating the mystical story, to Commemoration of Ceremony opening ‘Chumphon Khet Udomsak’ Beacon in 1960, the second official biography of the Admiral Prince that accepted the mystical legends to be one of fact. According to the study, the reliability of the mystical legends was constructed by a “set of composition for constructing reliability” that each biographer chose in order to make the story to sound reasonable, realistic and reliable to convince readers to believe that the legends existed in the past, as well as to harmonize with the historical context so that people would recognize that Admiral Prince’s image was a sacred spirit.
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