Running amok: an historical inquiry
Auteur :
Spores, John C.
Éditeur :
Ohio University Press
ISBN :
9780896801400
Date de publication :
1 janv. 1988
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Examines historical data, including frequently colorful colonialist accounts of such episodes, from British Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies during the period 1800-1925. This book presents a basic etiological distinction between reactive-motivated and a spontaneous, unmotivated amok.