百年来人类学巫医研究的综述与反思

Survey and Reflection of Anthropological Study of Witch Treatment in Resent 100 Years

巫医是巫术在健康领域的广泛运用。巫医长期以来深受西方人类学者的关注,成为人类学研究中的一个重要领域。由于各种原因,中国学者涉足巫医领域较晚,成果也不多,其研究理论与方法尚欠系统性和前瞻性。因此,吸收国外巫医研究成果,推动巫医研究在中国的开展,显得十分重要。文章对百年来的人类学巫医研究作一个大致的评述,分析对比中外差距,以期有更多的中国人类学者进入到巫医研究领域。

Witch treatment, which has been one of the important fields in the anthropological research, means that witchcraft is widely used in health care and it has drawn great attention of a large number of anthropologists from the West. For various reasons, the Chinese scholars get in- volved in the study of witch treatment much later than the westerners and their achievements are less fruitful and the research theory and methods lack of systematic-- ness and foresight-- ness. Therefore, it is of great importance for the Chinese to further the witch study in China by in--taking the research achievements of the foreign countries. This paper makes a comment on the anthropological study of witch treatment in recent 100 years, comparing the research home and abroad in hope of involving more anthropologists in the circle of witch treatment.