阿美人是祖国宝岛台湾高山族中人数比较多的一个部落,居住于台湾东部的台东和花莲间的纵谷平原地带,靠捕鱼狩猎及从事简单的农业为主,生产不很发达,生活也比较简单。像众多的少数民族一样,阿美人也有着自己奇特的生活习俗及生活方式。男人出嫁,女子娶夫阿美人的家庭至今还多半是大家族的形式,一个家庭少的有七八人,多的达七、八十人,共同拥有土地和财产,同耕共猎,同居共食,共行祭祀,同守禁忌,死后埋葬在一起。家庭中平时拥戴一位年长的妇女指挥生产活动和组织生活事务。很明显,这是妇女家长制,亦即 Amerindian is a tribe with a relatively large population in Taiwan’s Gaoshan in the motherland. It lives in the Rift Valley plain between Taitung and Hualien in the eastern part of Taiwan. It is dominated by fishing and hunting and simple agriculture. Its production is not well developed, Life is also relatively simple. Like many ethnic minorities, the Amis have their own unique customs and lifestyles. When a man is married, the family of a woman marrying a husband and wife is still mostly in the form of a big family. There are as few as seven or eight people in a family, with more than seven or eighty as many. They jointly own land and property, Food, joint worship, with the taboo taboo, buried after death. An elderly woman usually supports the production activities and the organization of life affairs in her family. Obviously, this is the patriarchal system of women, that is