| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立花蓮師範學院 === 多元文化研究所 === 89 === Contemporary studies about aboriginal women in Taiwan mostly treated the aboriginal women as the marginalized or as the problematicalized. They are not regarded as subjects of action, nor with the faculty of action and agency.
The researcher’s study field is in the Yuan-Shiang Dancing Club, which consists of Amis women. Via taking the research methods of ethnographic studies, in-depth life story interviews, and participatory observation with the dancing club, the researcher wants to know the impacts and changes happening on these Amis women. The aim of this research is to discuss the meaning for these Amis women who have participated with the dancing club. Is it a self-curing? A recovery? A way seeking for identification? A reunion with other members? Or is it a space for local struggle?
From the field results, the researcher found that the Yuan-Shiang Dancing Club is not only a dancing club for Amis women. It possesses some other kinds of significances：
1.Througt participating in Yuan-Shiang Dancing Club, Amis women are set out to retrieve the connection and identification with the tribal dancing, music and the traditional culture.
2.Through participating in the dancing club, these members tried to break through the restraints coming from the family, and escaped from the situation of being isolated or fragmented. These women therefore have the chance and the place to share their own feelings and experiences. They can also participate in other members’ living world, and feeling the power of sharing with each other.
The native Amis culture is under a change from matrilateral relation to patrilateral one. Under this change this research wants to discuss how the Amis women of Yuan-Shiang appropriate things of daily life as the resource to struggle with the domination and oppression of patriarchal ideology.
Yuan-Shiang Dancing Club not only creates the vocal space for Amis women but also helps them appropriate their life experiences as a resistance to the stereotype and stigma labeled by the large society. They can re-identify, re-define themselves and create for oneself a positive self-image.
In the tradition of positivism researches, experiences of women are frequently ignored or distorted. Because of the minority of race and gender, aboriginal women are forced to stand on? the marginalized situation. The original concern of this research is to look at the positive meaning and value of life experience of women, to share with the power of female life, and to broaden the vocal space for aboriginal women.
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