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Title: Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands by Shirley Lindenbaum ISBN: 0-87484-362-6 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 01 October, 1978 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $31.25 |
Average Customer Rating: 1.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Incomplete
Comment: This book is interesting but seems incomplete. Toward the end of the book the author begins relating a sequence of events, then stops in the middle and explains that she doesn't know the outcome because her fieldwork ended at that time. I found this odd. I would have liked to have read more information concerning Kuru, how it changed the Fore' and (as would be the natural course of the disease if the cause (cannibalism) had in fact been removed) if there are no new instances of the
disease. The book makes the point of attaching the incidence of cannibalism to a shortage of protein in the diet of Fore' women and children. Has this protein shortage been remedied, or are the Fore' merely claiming to have given up cannibalism to appease authorities?
Rating: 1
Summary: A decieving title but good ethnographic content
Comment: I was not impressed by this book, particularly by the title. Only a small portion is dedicated to explaining kuru and its causes/effects on the Fore. The rest of the book is an ethnographic description of the life of the Fore, their reaction to kuru, and the ultimate outcome. In short, kuru is a disease of the CNS caused by cannablism (similar to mad cow disease). The studies take place around the '70s, and by then cannablism was on the decline, and resultingly the disease also became rare. This dry read was hard to get through and quite disappointing because of the decieving title. I would not recommend it unless the reader is genuinely interested in learning more about the Fore of New Guinea. It's interesting for a medical anthropologist, but not a casual read.
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Title: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman ISBN: 0374525641 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 28 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Medicine & Culture: Varieties of Treatment in the United States, England, West Germany, and France by Lynn Payer ISBN: 0805048030 Publisher: Owl Books (NY) Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Health and the Rise of Civilization by Mark Nathan Cohen ISBN: 0300050232 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1991 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney ISBN: 0521277868 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1984 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction by Emily Martin ISBN: 0807046450 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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