Abstract—This paper took the application of community
development (CD) in a Taiwanese aborigines’ community and
focusing on actors’ agent/agency worked inside of the
community, (1) clarified how community leaders revived and
transformed tradition, (2) considered the viability of their CD
practice. The agent/agency of transformative capacity is
applicable to CD of a process of community transformation.
Previous studies discussed the concept focusing on a feature of
intervention between outsider and the community. A
significance of the paper is focusing on inside because it is
several residents who start CD although it is said that CD is
advanced the community’s participation. Involving other
residents is a basic step of a CD process and clarifying the step
in detail help to measure a community’s capacity when not only
researchers consider the continuity of CD in the community,
but also outsiders consider how they can cooperate with them
about CD. The investigation revealed that a minority leaders’
agency appeared in that they selectively revived traditions to
form a majority of residents’ common feelings. Shifting a
perspective of intervention from outside to inside of the
community and introducing the concept to Taiwanese
aborigines’ CD study would be able to develop discussions of
decolonization.
Index Terms—Taiwanese aborigines, agency, customary law,
community development.
Takako Sasaki is with the Kyoto University, Japan (e-mail:
sasaki.takako.68e@st.kyoto-u.ac.jp).
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Cite: Takako Sasaki, " Revival of Tradition in a Taiwanese Aborigines'
Community by Means of a Community Development
Process -from a Perspective of Agent/Agency," International Journal of Social Science and Humanity vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 566-571, 2015.