Young A
Cult Med Psychiatry. 1977;1(2):183-99. doi: 10.1007/BF00114849.
An important source of the efficacy of techniques for managing sickness is their capacity for symbolically ordering the disordered states associated with disease. (The ability to give empirical proofs is another source.) This article describes the symbolic ordering wirked by a method of divination that is practiced by the Amhara of Ethiopia. Emphasis is given to indicating how order is accomplished through linking disease with phenomenological domains that are remote from the biophysical locus of sickness. The point is made that ordering and linking depend on processes of analogy.
治疗疾病技术有效性的一个重要来源是它们能够以象征的方式梳理与疾病相关的紊乱状态。（提供实证依据的能力是另一个来源。）本文描述了埃塞俄比亚阿姆哈拉人所施行的一种占卜方法所产生的象征梳理作用。重点在于指出如何通过将疾病与远离疾病生物物理位置的现象学领域相联系来实现秩序。文中指出，梳理和联系依赖于类比过程。
