Schieffelin E L
Department of Anthropology, University of College London.
Cult Med Psychiatry. 1996 Mar;20(1):1-39. doi: 10.1007/BF00118749.
This essay analyses the cultural and historical processes involved in the emergence of Evil Spirit Sickness, a form of mental or behavioral derangement that appeared among the Bosavi people of Papua New Guinea during a period of intense Christian evangelization and religious excitement. It explores the emergence of the disorder both as a form of psychological breakdown under the burden of intolerable life stress and a socially innovated, ritually structured, and performatively achieved mode of seeking redemption in a Papuan Christian context.
本文分析了“恶灵病”出现过程中所涉及的文化和历史进程。“恶灵病”是一种精神或行为错乱形式，在巴布亚新几内亚博萨维人当中，于一段基督教强力传教和宗教狂热时期出现。它探讨了这种病症的出现，既作为在无法承受的生活压力重负下心理崩溃的一种形式，也作为在巴布亚基督教背景下一种通过社会创新、仪式构建并通过表演实现的寻求救赎的方式。
