Latah in Southeast Asia: The ethnography and history of a culture-bound syn drome by Robert L.Winzeler. 1995. New York: Cambridge University Press. Cloth: $54.95, ISBN 0-521-47219-9, xvi+172 pages, Publication of the Soci ety for Psychological Anthropology.
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