Latah in South-East Asia
Subtitle: The History and Ethnography of a Culture-bound Syndrome (Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 24, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780521472197
Subjects: Ethnography; Sociology; Malaysia; Ethnopsychology; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sarawak; Pasir Mas (Kelantan); Anthropology - Cultural; Ethnic Studies - General; Social Psychology; Ethnopsychology--Malaysia--Pasir Mas (Kelanta; Ethnopsychology--Malaysia--Pasir Mas (Kelantan); Psychology-Social Psychology; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social Science-Ethnic Studies - General; Anthropology - General; History; Latah (Disease)
First sentence: The earliest European account to be cited as an actual or possible reference to latah (by Yap 1952: 516; Murphy 1972: 43) is contained in J. R. Logan's journal of his trip from Melaka into Naning, published in 1849.