Meinert Lotte
Anthropol Med. 2004 Apr 1;11(1):11-26. doi: 10.1080/1364847042000204942.
Based on long-term fieldwork in rural Eastern Uganda, this paper explores the use of Bourdieu's concepts of capital and habitus to analyse local understandings of resources and strategies for health. In this local Ugandan context health cannot be taken for granted, but requires persistent effort. In local terms, health is broadly described as having a 'good life' and this is experienced as a social achievement conditioned by access to a variety of human and material resources. Wealth, unity with others, learnedness, 'smartness', and bodily strength are described by local people as key resources for a 'good life'. Bourdieu's concepts of economic, social, cultural and symbolic capital are applied in discussing the dynamics of how these local resources are converted into different forms of capital in the quest for health. It is argued that in order to more fully analyse how people think about, and strive for, health, a concept of bodily capital may be a useful addition to Bourdieu's original forms of capital.
基于在乌干达东部农村地区的长期实地调查，本文探讨了运用布迪厄的资本和惯习概念来分析当地人对资源的理解以及健康策略。在乌干达当地的这种背景下，健康并非理所当然，而是需要持续努力。用当地的话说，健康大致被描述为拥有“美好生活”，而这被体验为一种社会成就，取决于能否获得各种人力和物质资源。当地人将财富、与他人的团结、学识、“机灵”和体力描述为实现“美好生活”的关键资源。布迪厄的经济、社会、文化和象征资本概念被用于讨论在追求健康的过程中这些当地资源如何转化为不同形式资本的动态过程。有人认为，为了更全面地分析人们如何思考和追求健康，身体资本的概念可能是对布迪厄原有资本形式的有益补充。
