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Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands. Explorations in World Ethnology.
Palo Alto, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1979. First Edition. Original Wraps. ...Includes eight page handwritten in ink working paper using the book as second source material. An comprehensive and marginalized study of the Fore people in Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea and the incidence of a rare disease called kuru. The text discusses the response to kuru epidemic and the relationship to the practice and infliction of sorcery. Epidemiology reveals the disease was potentially exacerbated by cannibalism and consumption of animal meat. The author also discusses Fore beliefs about diagnosis and prevention of other diseases. Provocative and insightful cultural folk medicine study. Very Good in Wraps. Minimal to moderate edgewear to wrappers, folding, creasing, and buckling, with highlighting within. Laid in manuscript. Perfect bound color wrappers, 8vo. 174pp. Illus. (b/w) +index. Item #11853
Price: $65.00