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Latah in South-East Asia - The History and Ethnography of a Culture-bound Syndrome (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,698

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Latah in South-East Asia - The History and Ethnography of a Culture-bound Syndrome (Hardcover, New): Robert L. Winzeler

Latah in South-East Asia - The History and Ethnography of a Culture-bound Syndrome (Hardcover, New)

Robert L. Winzeler

Series: Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology

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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'. 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 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 'syndrome'.

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Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology
Release date:	1995
First published:	1995
Authors:	Robert L. Winzeler
Dimensions:	236 x 157 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	192
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-47219-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Biological anthropology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-521-47219-9
Barcode:	9780521472197