num_pages: 174
description: Kuru, a fatal neurological disease thought to be transmitted through cannibalism, is examined in the Fore, a New Guinea people afflicted with the disease, who believe it to be caused by sorcery. The author also discusses Fore beliefs about diagnosis and prevention of other diseases.
language: English
title: Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands
titlecomplete: Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands (Explorations in World Ethnology)
genres: Science, History, Anthropology, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 74
publisher: Mayfield Publishing Company