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Kuru sorcery : disease and danger in the New Guinea highlands / Shirley Lindenbaum.

Title
Kuru sorcery : disease and danger in the New Guinea highlands / Shirley Lindenbaum.
Author
Lindenbaum, Shirley
Publication
Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, [2013]

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Description
x, 230 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Fore (Papua New Guinean people) > Diseases
  • Fore (Papua New Guinean people) > Medicine
  • Kuru > Papua New Guinea
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 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.
ISBN
  • 9781612052755 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1612052754 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9781612052762 (paperback)
  • 1612052762 (paperback)
LCCN
^^2013002223
OCLC
793581471
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library