Abstract: 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.

Key words: narrative of illness, fragility, embodied nation