Wickström Anette
Department of Culture and Communication, Linköping University, Sweden.
Med Anthropol Q. 2014 Jun;28(2):203-20. doi: 10.1111/maq.12073. Epub 2014 Mar 6.
Many Zulu people who live in big cities in South Africa return to their rural homestead when they fall ill. Although the health care offered in rural areas is not efficient, people wish to connect to their family and ancestors. My aim is to explore acts of lungisa ("to put in order") and what they say about health, agency, and the circumstances under which people live. Returning home means weaving oneself firmly within a web of relationships that are located in material things and places. Healing involves imperfect strategies used to better connect bodies, relationships, and places. I theorize the acts of returning using Adriana Cavarero's concept of weaving together and argue that people produce space and relationships over time to exert some control over a life lived under political and economic circumstances that have created separation. Six months of ethnographic fieldwork make up the material for my analysis.
许多生活在南非大城市的祖鲁人患病时会回到他们农村的家宅。尽管农村地区提供的医疗保健效率不高，但人们希望与家人和祖先建立联系。我的目的是探究“lungisa”（意为“整理”）行为以及这些行为所揭示的关于健康、能动性以及人们生活环境的信息。回家意味着将自己牢固地编织进一个存在于物质事物和场所中的关系网络。治愈涉及到为更好地连接身体、关系和场所而采用的不完美策略。我运用阿德里亚娜·卡瓦雷罗的“编织在一起”的概念对回家行为进行理论化，并认为人们随着时间的推移创造空间和关系，以对在造成分离的政治和经济环境下的生活施加某种控制。六个月的民族志田野调查构成了我分析的素材。
