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Latah in South-East Asia : The History and Ethnography of a Culture-Bound Syndrome - No Information Available

Latah in South-East Asia

The History and Ethnography of a Culture-Bound Syndrome

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Hardcover | 13 March 1995

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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 hypotheses that have been proposed to account for latah, and explains the ways in which local people understand it. Arguing that latah has specific social functions, he concludes that it is not appropriate to regard it as an "illness" or a "syndrome."
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'Winzeler's book is a well written and well documented monograph on a difficult topic, based on thorough research, carefully argued ... convincing.' Bijdragen

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