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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