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Kuru Sorcery - Shirley Lindenbaum

Kuru Sorcery

Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands
Buch | Hardcover
240 Seiten
2013 | 2nd edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-61205-275-5 (ISBN)
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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.

Shirley Lindenbaum is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the CUNY–Graduate Center, New York.

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Kuru and Sorcery; Chapter 3 Other Medical Disorders; Chapter 4 Extensions of Self; Chapter 5 Etiology and World View; Chapter 6 Ideology in Transition; Chapter 7 The Crisis Years; Chapter 8 The Kibungs; Chapter 9 Status and the Sorcerer; Chapter 10 Polluters, Witches, and Sorcerers; Chapter 11 Conclusion 1979; Chapter 12 Telling History; Chapter 13 The End of Kuru; Chapter 14 Epilogue;

Erscheint lt. Verlag 20.9.2013
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 1000 g
Themenwelt Studium Querschnittsbereiche Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-61205-275-4 / 1612052754
ISBN-13 978-1-61205-275-5 / 9781612052755
Zustand Neuware
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