2.26 A severely ill man is bed-ridden. He is believed to be suffering from sorcery. Severe illness and death can strike Gebusi at any stage of life. |
2.27 A young boy, Sayu, with the distinctive “sago belly” of young Gebusi children that results from a high-starch, low protein diet. Many Gebusi children are protein malnourished. This increases the rate of childhood disease and mortality. |
2.29 A large semi-domesticated pig in the village. When pigs roam in the village, they root in the mud, defecate, and are a nuisance and a risk to hygiene and health. But they provide an important source of protein-on-the-hoof. |
3.1 Eileen holds a baby. Many Gebusi infants died. |
4.2 Sorcery case: Halia, an initiate who died eleven days after the male initiation. The medical reason for Halia’s death is unknown, but it is possible that he died from a ruptured spleen that had become enlarged due to malaria. Gebusi believed Halia’s death was caused by parcel sorcery (bogay). |
11.43 Skit at Independence Day in which a poor traditional villager (right) asks in vain for medicine to cure his sick son from a well-dressed official (left). The skit enacts tensions of locally modern life. |
