Change and Continuity of Yi Medical Culture in Southwest China

This study is based on fourteen months of fieldwork among two subgroups of the Yi, Lolopo and Nuosu, living in the two Yi autonomous prefectures in southwest China. After over forty year's development, these two subgroups show quite different levels of both receptivity to biomedicine and incorporation of state-run health care service into their own medical systems. This work provides a comprehensive ethnographic account of health care practices in the two communities. Throughout this research, I examine the cultural and historical discrepancies which contribute to the different reactions towards the state-run health care network and biomedicine, and present the interplay of political, economic, religious, and cognitive factors in people's medical practice and ethnic identity.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Anthropology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Liu, Xiaoxing

Contributors dc:contributor

• Lehman, F.K.

• Sociology, Social Structure and Development

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9912308

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/85320