Kelompok 3

Culture-Bound
Syndromes
Nur Milawati
Nadila Ridha Amalia
Nurafni
Andhira Prabawati
William Sucianto
What is Culture-
Bound
Syndromes ?
 Nerves

Latah Windigo

Types Of
Syndromes

Kuru Susto

Amok
 NERVES
Patients with nerves usually complain of headache,
dizziness, fatigue, weakness, and abdominal pain and
attribute their symptoms to sadness, anger, fear, or worry,
although symptoms and etiology vary. (Davis &
Guarnaccia, 1989)
 WINDIGO
Literary descriptions posit that some Northern Algonquins
suffer from fits in which they experience a compulsion to kill
and eat human beings.
 SUSTO

Typically a sufferer has trouble sleeping or sleeps too

much, feels sad and listless, may stop eating, and experiences
headaches, diarrhea, and assorted aches and pains, similar to
depression or post-traumatic stress disorder (American
Psychiatric Association, 2000).
 KURU
Unlike other culture-bound syndromes, kuru has been
identified with a biomedical condition, kuru (shaking with fear)
manifested with tremors and progressive dementia.
 KORO
Koro sufferers are usually male, and during episodes they
become convinced that their genitals are shrinking up inside
their bodies. Koro sufferers also manifest acute anxiety, and
often believe that full genital retraction will result in death.
 AMOK
British colonial officials in Malaysia were so impressed with
the idea that native Malays might suddenly grab a weapon and
embark on a frenzied homicidal attack, that they adopted the Malay
word amok into the English language to refer to any sudden,
violent, chaotic behavior. Such attacks, usually following a period of
brooding, may have their origin in forms of warfare in historical
Malaysia, although by the time they were described by the British,
they had become individual attacks (Carr, 1985).
 LATAH
Latah, from the Malay word for
ticklish, denotes a person who
respon to being starled by
temporarily entering and altered
state in which she or he will obey
commands, imitate movements or
sound repeatdly, utter rude or
obscene language, and/or act in
sexually inappropriate ways
(Winzelar, 1995).
CULTURE-BOUND SYNDROMES AND SOCIAL CHANGE

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Daftar pustaka
Ember, Carlos., & Ember, Melvin.
(2004). Encyclopedia Medical
Anthropology. New York: Plenum
Publisher.