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A note on terminology. Introduction; experiments with the Jumpers or Jumping Frenchmen of Maine (1880), George M. Beard; comparative psychiatry (1904), Emil Kraepelin; medicine , magic an religion, W.H.R. Rivers; mother-right and the sexual life of savages (1925), Ernest Jones; the physical effect on the individual of the idea of death suggested by the collectivity (1926), Marcel Mauss; temperament, conflict and psychosis in a Stone-age population (1929), C.G. Seligman; the social function of anxiety in a primitive society (1941), A. Irving Hallowell; psychopathology, primitive medicine and primitive culture (1943), Erwin H. Ackerknecht; the effectiveness of symbols (1949), Claude Levi Strauss; mental diseases peculiar to certain cultures - a survey of comparative psychiatry (1951), P.-M. Yapp; Dhary and Bhang - cultural factors in the choice of intoxicants (1954), G.M. Carstairs; normal and abnormal (1956), George Devereux; possession hysteria in a Kenya tribe (1957), Grace Harris; suicide and risk-taking in Tikopia society (1961), Raymond Firth; an Ndembu doctor in practice (1964), Victor W. Turner; history and the evolution of syndromes - the striking case of Latah and Amok (1971), Henry B.M. Murphy.