| amok | a mental illness found in Malaysia and Indonesia in which the victim kills people while in a temporarily deranged state
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| enculturation | the process by which children learn the rules and values of their culture
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| latah | a mental illness found in Malaysia, predominantely in females, whose symptoms include a startle reaction and compulsive imitation of words, gestures, and acts
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| marabout | traditional Algerian therapist, regarded as a saint and healer whose burial place often comes a shrine
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| mental illness | in anthrological terms, normal, expected, and acceptable behavior in a culture is a baseline; deviance from this baseline is abnormal behavior or mental illness
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| Windigo psychosis | a mental illness in which there is a feeling of being persecuted by supernatural spirits and having cannibalistic fantasies that occurred among the Algonquian Native Americans in the Northeast
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2003 McGraw-Hill Higher Education