Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
Med Anthropol Q. 2011 Sep;25(3):395-411. doi: 10.1111/j.1548-1387.2011.01168.x.
This article employs the rite of passage concept to analyze why and how heroin use and a subsequent HIV/AIDS epidemic have taken hold among minority Nuosu (Yi) young men in Southwest China. It juxtaposes structural inequalities and sociocultural particularities in social suffering among Nuosu youths as they attempt to create meaningful lives in China's market reform era. Since the 1980s, young Nuosu have ventured out to Han-dominant cities in search of fun and opportunities. This movement has become a new foray into manhood and inadvertently set up their encounter with heroin and the subsequent introduction of HIV into their hometowns. The article is based on my 20-month ethnographic fieldwork in Limu, a mountainous Nuosu community in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, between 2002 and 2009.
本文运用“过渡仪式”的概念，分析了为什么以及如何在中国西南部的少数民族彝族青年中出现了海洛因使用和随后的艾滋病流行。它将彝族青年在尝试创造中国市场改革时代有意义的生活时所遭受的结构性不平等和社会文化特殊性进行了并列。自 20 世纪 80 年代以来，年轻的彝族青年冒险进入以汉族为主的城市，寻求乐趣和机会。这种运动已经成为一种新的成年仪式，无意中使他们接触到了海洛因，并随后将艾滋病引入了他们的家乡。本文基于我在 2002 年至 2009 年期间在四川省凉山彝族自治州的一个山区彝族社区里木进行的为期 20 个月的民族志实地调查。
