Abstract
During my first employment as a Medical Officer in the Public Health Service of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, I was, after an induction period in Goroka, offered a posting to Okapa for several months. I was accompanied by my wife Theresa and our 18-month-old son. The pilot who flew us there
Highlights
1. 1962 During my first employment as a Medical Officer in the Public Health Service of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, I was, after an induction period in Goroka, offered a posting to Okapa for several months
We chatted with Bob and Shirley Glasse (Shirley later became Lindenbaum), the anthropologists involved in the social aspects of kuru
It may be interesting to know that any grown-up Fore male could have been able to perform deadly kuru sorcery, provided he had a sorcerer’s stone and knew the complicated procedures with the most harmful spells, presupposing that he was smart enough to collect secretly some dirty stuff from his future victim—and, on condition that he was willing to follow a private course in kuru sorcery given by an expert
Summary
1. 1962 During my first employment as a Medical Officer in the Public Health Service of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, I was, after an induction period in Goroka, offered a posting to Okapa for several months. As for cannibalism: the new law had encouraged the Fore people for more than 2 years to give up eating their deceased relatives.
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