Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands (Explorations in World Ethnology)

Brand: Mayfield Publishing Company

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$12.04 - $117.48
UPC:
9780874843620
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
1978-10-01
Author:
Shirley Lindenbaum
Language:
english
Edition:
1st
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Kuru, a fatal neurological disease thought to be transmitted through cannibalism, is examined in the Fore, a New Guinea people afflicted with the disease, who believe it to be caused by sorcery. The author also discusses Fore beliefs about diagnosis and prevention of other diseases.

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