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Fortune And Gift

Posted on:2018-01-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L ZhuangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2417330515455873Subject:Anthropology
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Doctor-patient relationship is one of the important contents of medical anthropology.At present,academics focus more on professional or formal medical care system,and less on this issue in the field of ritual treatment.Based on the field work of Luojue village in Meigu County,Sichuan Province,this paper analyzes the mechanism of doctor-patient interaction and its influencing factors in Liangshan Yi people's ritual treatment from the perspective of etiology,attribution of curative efficacy and reciprocity.According to Arthur Kleinman's stratification of medical pluralism,this paper describes the medical system of Luojue village from three aspects:professional,folk and popular.The Yi people in Liangshan will attribute the occurrence of disease and curative efficacy to their own blessing gods-the state of luck spirits.Therefore,the ritual healers represented by Bimo are exempted from treatment failure,shaping the good doctor-patient relationship pattern fundamentally.In addition,in the reputation of the supreme and hierarchical concept deeply rooted society,the desire of reputation presents the interaction of doctor-patient a characteristic of reciprocity and builds a cooperative social link,is also shaping its good doctor-patient relationship...
Keywords/Search Tags:Doctor-patient relationship, Yi nationality, Ritual treament, Fortune, Gift
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