Kuru Sorcery Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands

Name: Kuru Sorcery Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands
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ISBN: 9781612052762

ISBN-10: 1612052762

ISBN-13: 9781612052762

Edition: 2013

Authors: Shirley Lindenbaum

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Perhaps the best-documented epidemic in the history of medicine, kuru has been studied for more than fifty years by international investigators from medicine and the human sciences. This significantly revised edition of the landmark anthropological classic Kuru Sorcerybrings up to date the anthropological contribution to understanding disease, the medical research that resulted in two medical Nobel Prizes, and the views of the Fore people who endured the epidemic and who still believe that sorcerers, rather than cannibalism, caused kuru. The kuru epidemic serves as a prism through which to see how Fore notions of disease causation bring into single focus their views about the body, the…

Book details

List price: $41.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 6/30/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Shirley Lindenbaum is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the CUNY-Graduate Center, New York.



Preface



Introduction



Kuru and Sorcery



Other Medical Disorders



Extensions of Self



Etiology and World View



Ideology in Transition



The Crisis Years



The Kibungs



Status and the Sorcerer



Polluters, Witches, and Sorcerers



Conclusion 1979



Telling History



The End of Kuru


Epilogue


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index