Structural Changes of Traditions Rituals Regarding King Naga Suttho at Kham Chanod Forest in Ban Dung District of Udon Thani Province.

Supee Samorna

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) To study changes in the form and role on the Pu Sri Sutthanak of the Kham Chanod forest. 2) To study the impacts of changes in the form and role information with the Pu Sri Sutthanak of the Kham Chanod forest. This research was conducted through qualitative methodology (Qualitative Research) collected field data from February to July 2017 by using Semi-Structure Interview (SSI)
methodology for individual interview, group interview, participant observation, and group discussion. Key participant’s selection process was using specific criteria of age and experience. There were a monk, three experts, two community leaders, two temple committees, three street vendors, and three villagers. The study indicated that traditions, rituals, about the Pu Sri Sutthanak of Kham Chanod forest, which used to be rituals in real life, have become a “commodity” for tourism and economy but the ritual traditions of Pu Sri Sutthana which still means the “sacred”. It is a “mystical realm”, by which meaning is still available, enabling outsiders to use the context of tourism and economy to exploit the culture so that cultural impacts can be exerted. This makes impacts on following issues: 1) Community loses its relationship with the socio-cultural, 2) a cultural capital is not being manufactured in the community 3) creates an external-large economy and 4) the myth that trans-boundary or trans-region to serve a new context and new purpose.