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Sep 6, 2016 · When People Ate People, A Strange Disease Emerged. In 1962, a local leader in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea asks Fore men to stop the sorcery that he believes is killing women and ...
Jul 9, 2024 · Papua New Guinea's shift from ancient traditions to a Christian nation reflects determined missionary efforts and unwavering faith. Papua New Guinea, the eastern half of the world's second-largest island, New Guinea, was once home to headhunters and cannibals before its Christianization in the 19th century. This journey from ancient traditions ...
Feb 1, 2012 · The notion that cannibalism was not a socially approved custom in Papua New Guinea, or elsewhere, was proposed in 1979 in a publication suggesting that the practice was an invention of the anthropologist, missionary, and adventurer’s imagination , a position that is no longer accepted.
- Pawel P. Liberski, Beata Sikorska, Shirley Lindenbaum, Lev G. Goldfarb, Catriona McLean, Johannes A....
- 2012
- Inside The Origins of The Kuru Disease
- How Ritual Cannibalism Caused The Laughing Death Epidemic
- When The Kuru Epidemic Finally Ended
Papua New Guinea is renowned for its hundreds of Indigenous groups left untouched by outside civilizations for thousands of years. In their homes nestled among the dense forests that blanket the country’s mountains, these groups developed a distinctive range of cultures and practices. It wasn’t until the 16th century that Portuguese and Spanish exp...
Anthropologist Shirley Lindenbaum and her then-husband Robert Glasse were among the scientists involved in the first dedicated study of kuru in 1961. Traveling from village to village in the Fore community, they examined possible causes of the disease. After ruling out contaminants, they soon realized the disease wasn’t genetic either, because it a...
The number of kuru cases among the Fore gradually dwindled over the years after the researchers’ discoveries. However, the cases didn’t disappear immediately, as the disease sometimes took decades to show its effects. According to Michael Alpers, a medical researcher at Curtin University in Australia who studied the disease, the last kuru victim di...
- Morgan Dunn
Apr 10, 2018 · Cannibalism is against Papua New Guinea (PNG) law, but those people caught are only charged with desecration of a corpse—which had a fine of 25 Kina (US$25). In my dissertation from field work in PNG ( Citation Eley 1988 ), I had a chapter on cannibalism, but my committee unanimously “suggested” that I remove it.
- Thomas Eley
- 2018
Cannibalism and developments to socio-political systems from 540 BP in the Massim Islands of south-east Papua New Guinea. In From Field to Museum—Studies from Melanesia in Honour of Robin Torrence, ed. Jim Specht, Val Attenbrow, and Jim Allen Serial Title Technical Reports of the Australian Museum online Volume 34 Start Page 47 End Page 60 DOI
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May 12, 2021 · PDF | On May 12, 2021, Ben Shaw and others published Cannibalism and developments to socio-political systems from 540 BP in the Massim Islands of south-east Papua New Guinea. In From Field to ...
