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KMID : 0904520130340010061
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Health and Medical Sociology
2013 Volume.34 No. 1 p.61 ~ p.86
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An Anthropological Analysis of Suicide Phenomena in China: Focusing on Structural Violence and Embodiment
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Lee Hyeon-Jung
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Abstract
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Suicide in China has attracted much scholarly attention due to its large scale and the unique gender and regional patterns of the rates. Anthropological field research in rural China, this study has examined the causes of the unique patterns, which either psychiatric or sociological approach has not sufficiently explained. For this study, different complementary methods in anthropology, including participant observation, informal interviewing, in-depth interviewing, life story, focus group research, and text analysis, were conducted between 2004 and 2013. Obtained data was analyzed, particularly by utilizing the concepts of structural violence and embodiment. To conclude, the high rates of suicide among rural women appear to be an outcome of two factors: first is the increasing urban-rural socioeconomic gap and patriarchal oppression in rural China, which function as important forms of structural violence; second is the embodiment of suicide among rural women as one of the possible responses to difficult situations, which results from the shared experience of frequent female suicide accidents in their life.
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KEYWORD
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Suicide, China, Gender, Structural violence, Embodiment
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