医学人类学的研究通常把身体作为研究疾痛的一个重要焦点，而越来越多的人类学研究也试图讨论"自然"的身体是如何成为社会结构的隐喻。基于五个月的田野调查，通过大量的民族志材料，并通过分析在现代医学以及传统驱鬼仪式失效之后佤寨村民试图理解自身的疾痛的叙事追因，可以理解当地村民在现代医疗体系之外疾痛叙事的社会语境，以及当地人对于身体脆弱性的持续感知。随着公共卫生的建设，当地长久存在的瘴气疫病说逐渐消失，但是依然存在着现代医学体系范围之外的疾痛叙事。这种个体的疾痛叙事体现了失序的身体转化为对于身体脆弱性的持续体验，而这种脆弱性则可以发现一个"具身化"的国家——即可以揭示国家力量如何深入地方社会，并内化于个体。

The care about body is the starting point of the research of medical anthropology,whereas cultural anthropology often cares about how "natural" body becomes the metaphor of social structure. By studying a great amount of ethnographical records and analyzing people's narrative of illness after the malfunction of modern medical science and traditional rites of expelling demons based on five-month field research,this paper reveals the social context of Wa villagers' illness narrative beyond the modern medical system and their continuous sense of body fragility. Along with the construction of public sanitation facilities, the long-last view of miasma causing diseases has been gradually denied, but the narrative of illness beyond the modern medical system still exists. This kind of illness narrative of individuals shows that the disordered body is transformed to continuous experience of body fragility,which implies an "embodied" nation,revealing how national power penetrates into local society and is internalized in individuals.