沖縄県北部の1農村住民の民俗医療の知識に関する社会学的研究

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In order to study a role of folk medicine for local medical systems, the author investigated how much folk medical knowledge the inhabitants of a local village in northern Okinawa had, in 1984. The results were as follows: 1. Respondants had less knowledge of vernacular names of diseases, as their generations descended. On the other hand, there were only minor differences between generations as to knowledge of common names of diseases. 2. Younger respondants had somewhat less knowledge of folk etiology than middle age and older ones, which had about equivallent knowledge. 3. There was striking tendency that the younger respondants' generations were, the less knowledge of folk or popular medical treatments they had. 4. In general, women tended to have a greater store of folk medical knowledge than men. Both sexes of older respondants, however, had equivallent and abundant one. 5. The auther couldn't find relationships between quantity of folk medical knowledge and behavioral and socio-economical factors: language, belief to visiting "Yuta" (shaman in the Southwestern Islands), birth place, marital status, education, and occupation. The above results suggest that a role of folk medicine for local medical systems in a rural area of Okinawa prefecture might be decreasing with development of cosmopolitan medicine, exclusive of folk etiology or folk medical treatment of chronic or allergic diseases to which it is difficult to apply effectively etiology or technology of cosmopolitan medicine.
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沖縄県北部の1農村住民の民俗医療の知識に関する社会学的研究

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