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Latah in South-East Asia
The History And Ethnography Of A Culture-bound Syndrome
- Editore:
Cambridge University Press
- EAN:
9780521472197
- ISBN:
0521472199
- Pagine:
- 192
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
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Descrizione Latah in South-East Asia
"Latah", the Malayan hyperstartle pattern, has fascinated Western observers since the late nineteenth century and is widely regarded as a "culture-bound syndrome". Dr 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 way in which local people understand it. Arguing that latah has specific social uses, he concludes that it is not generally appropriate to regard it as an "illness" or "syndrome".
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