Kuru Sorcery Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands 2nd Edition by Shirley Lindenbaum ISBN 1612052754 978-1612052755

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ISBN 10: 1612052754 

ISBN 13: 978-1612052755

Author: Shirley Lindenbaum

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 Sorcery brings 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 world of social and spiritual relations, and changes in economic and political conditions-aspects of thought and behaviour that Western medicine keeps separate.

Table of contents: 

Preface

1 Introduction

2 Kuru and Sorcery

3 Other Medical Disorders

4 Extensions of Self

5 Etiology and World View

6 Ideology in Transition

7 The Crisis Years

8 The Kibungs

9 Status and the Sorcerer

10 Polluters, Witches, and Sorcerers

11 Conclusion 1979

12 Telling History

13 The End of Kuru Epilogue

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