Kuru sorcery : disease and danger in the New Guinea highlands

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    • Lindenbaum, Shirley

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Kuru sorcery : disease and danger in the New Guinea highlands

Shirley Lindenbaum

(Explorations in world ethnology)

Mayfield Pub. Co., 1979

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Bibliography: p. 159-165

Includes index

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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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