[ 摘要 ]
台灣現有關於原住民女性的相關研究，多半將原住民女性「邊緣化」、「問題化」，未能將原住民女性視為行動的主體，探討其可能具備的行動力與能動性。
本研究以由阿美族女性組成的「原鄉舞蹈團」為田野場域，透過民族誌的研究方法，藉由深度訪談與參與觀察了解參與舞團對阿美族女性造成的改變與影響。研究焦點旨在探討參與部落舞蹈團，對現代阿美族女性的意義為何：是自我治療？恢復？尋找認同的路？團結彼此的連帶？還是在地抗爭的空間？
一年多的田野結果，初步發現，對「原鄉舞蹈團」的阿美族女性而言，「原鄉」不只是舞蹈團，而具有其他層面的意義：
一、透過參與舞團，「原鄉」的阿美族女性開始找回與傳統樂舞文化之間的聯繫與認同。
二、透過參與舞團，團員們試圖打破婦女因家庭限制，而被孤立化、零碎化的狀態，女人有機會和管道可以訴說自己的經驗情感，可以跨進別人的生活世界，感受因分享彼此而產生的力量。
三、經歷社會變遷與漢人父權社會的影響下，阿美族母系社會面臨變遷與式微的現狀，在此變遷的脈絡下討論「原鄉」的阿美族女性如何運用生活中的資源，抗拒父權意識型態加諸在女性身上的支配與壓迫。
四、「原鄉」不僅創造了阿美族女性的發聲空間，也讓她們能夠以自身的生活經驗抗拒外界強加在他們身上的刻板印象與污名，能有機會重新觀看自己、界定自己，創造積極的自我意象。
在實證研究的傳統下，女性的經驗經常遭受漠視或扭曲，原住民女性更因族群與性別的雙重弱勢，居於極度邊緣化的位置。本研究的初衷除了正視女性經驗的價值與意義，分享女性生命的力量之外，也希望藉此開拓原住民女性的發聲空間。
[ 英文摘要 ]
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.