Abstract
The research is to explore the multiple and mobile characteristics of local identity in the modern Kenting after the radical change of the environment. Moreover, the existential anxiety accumulated little by little in everyday life has brought about delicate change. With competition, the Kenting people perform the innovation inspired by external materials and pressure to transform the anxiety into a new power that constitute Kenting’s local identity. And in the meantime the power also makes material environment moving. In sum, this research takes Kenting community as the object of study. In the second chapter, the author tries to represent the multiple and mobile characteristics of local identity with description of collective and individual religious events. Furthermore, the third chapter centers on the accumulating existential anxiety under the dominant reality of Kenting national park and powerful syndicates, and the resistance against the subaltern and indifferent response toward the circumstances. The fourth chapter eventually comes back to the Kenting people’s life—tourism industry. The author emphasizes their against competitive anxiety which encourages innovative styles and infinite possibility, and the transformed anxiety ultimately forms local identity of Kenting people. In the last chapter, the author sums up the properties of local identity of the modernity discovered in Kenting community and the force that drives it vary. The author represents what she observed with interpretive style and comes out to be a new ethnography of the Kenting identity in the modern.