Saturday, October 07, 2006


kunlangeta

It appears of late that some Republicans might soon be exposed as being kunlangeta.

From The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout, Ph.D.:

As an illustration, psychiatric anthropologist, Jane M. Murphy describes the Inuit concept of kunlangeta, which refers to a person whose "mind knows what to do but does not do it." Murphy writes that in Northwest Alaska, kunlangeta "might be applied to a man who, for example, repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and does not go hunting, and, when the other men are out of the village, takes sexual advantage of many women." The Inuits tacitly assume that kunlangeta is irremediable. And so, according to Murphy, the traditional Inuit approach to such a man was to insist that he go hunting, and then, in the absence of witnesses, push him off the edge of the ice. [pp. 135-136]

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