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Latah in South-East Asia: The History and Ethnography of a Culture-Bound Syndrome
Latah, the Malayan hyperstartle pattern, has fascinated Western observers since the late nineteenth century and is widely regarded as a "culture-bound syndrome." Robert Winzeler critically reviews the literature on the subject, and presents new ethnographic information based on his own fieldwork in Malaya and Borneo. He considers the biological and psychological ...more
Hardcover, 192 pages
Published
January 12th 1995
by Cambridge University Press
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