Menafsir Fenomena Latah sebagai Emosi Kebudayaan Masyarakat Melayu (Suatu Kajian Psikoantropologi)

• Main Author: , Hatib Abdul Kadir
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: [Yogyakarta] : Fak. Psikologi Universitas Mercu Buana 2009
• Subjects: Arctic
• Online Access: https://repository.ugm.ac.id/94876/; http://repository.ugm.ac.id/digitasi/index.php?module=cari_hasil_full&idbuku=2676

Latah is a social' behavior pheno(Ilen~Jlwhich has been examined theoretically by some anthropologists, historians, and psychologists. They tried to explain latah and its relation to gender, ethnicity, colonialismdiscourse, and mental health. Latah is consideredas part of the Malay's cultural emotions. The orientalists in the middle of nineteenth century depicted their amazement on finding this phenomenon. They tried to place latah into several cultural and psychological tenns, such as cultural bound syndrome, regional peculiarities, psychodrama shamanic, hysterical psychosis, arctic hysteria, reactive psychosis, startled reaction, and fright neurosis.Latah has become part of the power discourse in defining the identity of the Malays, which is in between of personal and'public place, profane and sacred realm, and consciousnessand unconsciousness.This article tries to analyzethe articleson latahwhich is consideredas socialand cultural phenomenonin SoutheastAsian countries,particularlyin Indonesia.