Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands by Shirley Lindenbaum, Robert B. Edgerton, L.L. Langness

Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands

Shirley Lindenbaum, Robert B. Edgerton, L.L. Langness

174 pages • first pub 1978 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative medium-paced
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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 diagnos...

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