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Spasms of the Soul: The Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic in the Age of Independence
(2014-06-06)1962. Tanganyika, East Africa. In a rural boarding school on the shore of Lake Victoria, dozens of adolescent girls began to laugh and cry uncontrollably. After trying to stem these mysterious breakouts for a month and ...