Kuru Sorcery : Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1612052762
ISBN-13
9781612052762
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 30th, 2013
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
332 grams
Dimensions
23.00 x 15.20 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
Indigenous peoplesSocial & cultural anthropology, ethnographyEpidemiology & medical statistics
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Significantly revised edition of a landmark anthropological investigation of tribal beliefs and practices regarding disease, health and medicine.
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.
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