The Beauty and Sadness of Nan-ao Country—Ethnic identification and interpretation of Han and Aborigine of Interracial Marriage of Aboriginal women

• Main Authors: Wang,Wenyen, 王文彥
• Other Authors: Wang,Dasiou
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47674709327661470901

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 社會與區域發展學系碩士班 === 99 === This research is studied based on four aboriginal women who is engaged in interehtnic marriage with Han people and currently still live in Nan-ao area. We try to explore the process on change of self recognition from their ethnic identity to new mix identity through qualitative in-depth interviews. Despite collecting the related documents and data, we also combine the information which gathered after interviewing with sample population and combine them with theories in order to analyze the facts. The purpose is to find out the core idea and meaningful content from candidates’experience. We are looking forward to discover the path on change of the self-identity of aboriginal women within the Nan-ao area and compare the facts with the results which come from different period of time in order to provide a new ways of deliberation and formulation of new images on aboriginal women who comes from Han-Aboriginal mixed family. From the study, we found out that aboriginal women from mix family during second to third phase have tendency of engaged in marriage with Han people for purpose of intrinsic rewards of Social Exchange Theory of Blau, not for purpose of extrinsic rewards or Hypergamy model of marriage. For aboriginal women with higher education background or women who has chances to re-enter the education, can help to improve the individual's ethnic identity.Due to their emotional affection upon their family of origins, aboriginal women in mix family tend not to hide their original identity. However, recognition of the tribal entity is only a type of external recognition and it will not affect the process on building of the self-identification. The level of self recognition tends to vary through different time periods. Many reasons might cause different results due to factors like historical background、social environment and contemporary policies. Language and religious belief from aboriginal tribes tend to have lighter influence on recognition of tribal identity for aboriginal women as time goes by. In contrast, personal characteristic and support from conjugal family play stronger influence on accommodation on marriage of cross-race as time goes by. Lastly, we hope the ideas which were being drawn out from this research could provide the public organizations and NGOs with clearer information and abundant resource as assistance on formulation of related policies in the future.