The Transcendent Patterning of Medical Pluralism: Religion and Medical Practices Among Miao Migrants in China.

IF 1.2 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-08-20 DOI:10.1080/01459740.2025.2545835

Shixian Wen, Orlando Woods, Quan Gao

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Abstract

Based on ethnographic fieldwork on the medical practices of Miao internal migrants in China, in this article we critique the hierarchical and discrete ontologies of "pluralism" prevalent in anthropological studies of medical pluralism. It examines how Miao migrants construct an informal pluralistic medical system that integrates shamanistic ritual healing, herbalism, and "folk" biomedicine within a pragmatically grounded yet spiritually coherent framework rooted in Miao religion and cosmologies. Furthermore, we explore how their medical-seeking practices, grounded in a transcendent ontology of well-being, operate through affective economies of trust and renqing, thereby enhancing their medical resilience and socio-economic embeddedness into local society.

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医学多元主义的超越模式：中国苗族移民的宗教与医疗实践。

基于对中国苗族内部移民医疗实践的民族志田野调查，本文对医学多元主义人类学研究中普遍存在的“多元主义”的分层和离散本体论进行了批判。它考察了苗族移民如何构建一个非正式的多元医疗体系，该体系将萨满教仪式治疗、草药疗法和“民间”生物医学整合在一个植根于苗族宗教和宇宙学的实用主义基础上，但精神上连贯的框架内。此外，我们还探讨了他们的就医实践是如何基于超越的幸福本体论，通过信任和宽容的情感经济运作的，从而提高他们的医疗弹性和社会经济融入当地社会。

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Medical Anthropology Multiple-

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4.10

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4.30%

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期刊介绍： Medical Anthropology provides a global forum for scholarly articles on the social patterns of ill-health and disease transmission, and experiences of and knowledge about health, illness and wellbeing. These include the nature, organization and movement of peoples, technologies and treatments, and how inequalities pattern access to these. Articles published in the journal showcase the theoretical sophistication, methodological soundness and ethnographic richness of contemporary medical anthropology. Through the publication of empirical articles and editorials, we encourage our authors and readers to engage critically with the key debates of our time. Medical Anthropology invites manuscripts on a wide range of topics, reflecting the diversity and the expanding interests and concerns of researchers in the field.