A Study of Oral History of Local History of Economy and Politics : Case Study Krasaebon Subdistrict, Klaeng District, Rayong Province

Abstract

This article presents a study of the history of local political economy by means of oral history. The author chose Krasaebon subdistrict, Klaeng district, Rayong province as an area of study to collect data. From in-depth interviewing, elders in community who got oral information from their ancestors, generation to generation, and their own experience in the history of political economy of Krasaebon community.

The study of oral history on history of local political economy is the study of pedigree, migration to settle down, bravery of ancestors who took pride to the community, naming the village, The village is named Economy, primary economic system of community, living conditions and relationships of people in the community, self-government of, state roles and bureaucratic mechanism of state in the area, roles of capitalist in the early stage, and the expansion of market and local capitalist system.

Except from the historical data of political economy, the important things that the author got from applying oral history to collect data were emotion, feeling and pride of people as the possessors of their history, happiness from reviewing the memories among people through author, people were willing to pass on data to author by telling that caused author got the new fade of the history of people that never been collected in the national history and readied to be blur through time. The author hopes that it would be great if the history of local people will be packed and be recounted to the community through local schools by seniors.