Kuru Sorcery

Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-61205-276-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 357 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lindenbaum, Shirley

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 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 Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Shirey Lindenbaum, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, CUNY-Graduate Center, research in Papua New Guinea from 1961 to 2008. Her books include the time of AIDS: Social in Analysis, Theory and Method, co edited with Gilbert Herdt and Knowledge, Power and Practise: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life, co edited with Margaret Locke.