เรืองณรงค์, ., & Ruangnarong, <. (2010, December 3). เมืองตรังในมุมมองของ เอ็ดน่า บรูเนอร์ บัลค์ลีย์ Muang Trang in the Eyes of Edna Bruner Bulkley. Songklanakarin : E-Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities [Online], 16(5). Available: https://kaekae.oas.psu.ac.th/ojs/psuhsej/viewarticle.php?id=797.
เมืองตรังในมุมมองของ เอ็ดน่า บรูเนอร์ บัลค์ลีย์ Muang Trang in the Eyes of Edna Bruner Bulkley
ประพนธ์ เรืองณรงค์,
Praphon Ruangnarong,
Abstract
Edna Bruner Bulkley, an American missionary, traveled to Siam in 1903, at nearly the end of the
reign of King Rama V of Ratanakosin Period. She worked in Bangkok for three years and moved to work in
Petchaburi for another two years. Then she and her family moved to work at Trang or Tab Tiang for 24
years (1908-1932). She recorded all kinds of impressions, stories, and events that she experienced in Trang
during her stay and work there, which included local history, folklores, and anthropological and
sociological aspects. They also included events and stories related to Tab Tiang hospital at that time,
residency, minorities, traveling from Bangkok to Trang and Trang to Bangkok, problems concerning
bandits, stories of honesty, pets and effects of wars. Edna Bruner and her family had strong bonds, love and
pride for Siam, the country where she and her family lived and devoted their time for human beings.
Her record, Siam Was Our Home, is so valuable and informative that provides the reader with her
experiences in Siam through her eyes, which took place more than one hundred years ago.
Keywords: belief, folklore, local history, minority, missionary
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