Abstract
The aim of this paper is to study how the society organized together and how the communities differentiate themselves in the island, Xiao Liuqiu, Taiwan, based on the fieldwork on life of religion, economics, and local politics. This paper focuses on how the tourism and the new discourses work on the social production and reproduction.The anthropology of tourism tends to discuss the topic of the impact on the host, but this paper has some different discoveries through the angle of the relationship between people and place. Either the fishing industry or tourism shows special connection between people and the natural environment. The people in Xiao Liuqiu keep making the discourses about the natural resources because of the risk of environmental disruption by tourism. By doing so, the relationship between human and the place are gradually different.And also, in Xiao Liuqiu society, there are many different ways to divide the communities, including historical place names, the economic associations, and local factions. Different boundaries are not conflict with other ones, and they all exist in Xiao Liuqiu.