The English-language Wikipedia article on kuru, the neurodegenerative disease among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea whose transmission through endocannibalistic mortuary practices, eating deceased relatives, was first formally proposed as a hypothesis by Robert Glasse in 1967.
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PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)
Source TypeEncyclopedia
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- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
- Ethnography and Cultural Practices, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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6Ethnography and Cultural Practices
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