The people In every village they visited were so often mourning the dead

摘要

I was still young and unmarried when Michael Alpers came into Waisa village in 1962 to live there and do research on kuru, which was taking the lives of theyoung man when Michael employed him. He helped in the house and whenever Michael wanted to go out on field patrol he went with him. He was a very handy man in doing fieldwork. He was also asked to go independently to check on kuru patients and report back whenever the symptoms of kuru had changed in the patients.