Curtainup Founder & Editor Elyse Sommer's Epilogue --
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
Michael Rockefeller's disappearance dramatized with humor
The Man Who Ate Michael Rockefeller -Jeff Cohen's insightful and often funny exploration of the young archeologist's unresolved disappearances .
For an accurate and historical perspective of the time and the people of the Papua, New Guinea highlands where Mr. Rockefeller's dissappearance was to have occurred, one may refer to "The River is to the Right", written by Tobias Schneebaum, later made into a film with the same title. Apart from cannibalism, this culture was one of the most primitive in the world. Stemming from their cannibalism, Kuru (similar to Mad Cow Disease), was originally investigated by D. Carlton Gajdusek, MD who won the Nobel Prize (1975) in Science and Medicine for his pioneering efforts in this area. The writer of this comment worked on his investigation team at the National Institutes of Health in Washington DC.
For an accurate and historical perspective of the time and the people of the Papua, New Guinea highlands where Mr. Rockefeller's dissappearance was to have occurred, one may refer to "The River is to the Right", written by Tobias Schneebaum, later made into a film with the same title. Apart from cannibalism, this culture was one of the most primitive in the world. Stemming from their cannibalism, Kuru (similar to Mad Cow Disease), was originally investigated by D. Carlton Gajdusek, MD who won the Nobel Prize (1975) in Science and Medicine for his pioneering efforts in this area. The writer of this comment worked on his investigation team at the National Institutes of Health in Washington DC.
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