kunlangeta
English
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Etymology
Possibly borrowed from Yupik.[1][2] This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
kunlangeta
- Among the Inuit, a malicious troublemaker or sociopath.
References
- ^ Murphy, Jane M. (1976 March 12) “Psychiatric Labeling in Cross-Cultural Perspective”, in Science, volume 191, number 4231, American Association for the Advancement of Science, , page 1026: “In addition, the Eskimos have a word, kunlangeta, which means “his mind knows what to do but he does not do it.””
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Lilienfeld, Scott O., Arkowitz, Hal (2007 December 1) “What "Psychopath" Means”, in Scientific American Mind, volume 18, number 6, London, England: Nature Portfolio, , pages 80–81:
- In a 1976 study anthropologist Jane M. Murphy, then at Harvard University, found that an isolated group of Yupik-speaking Inuits near the Bering Strait had a term (kunlangeta) they used to describe “a man who … repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and … takes sexual advantage of many women—someone who does not pay attention to reprimands and who is always being brought to the elders for punishment.” When Murphy asked an Inuit what the group would typically do with a kunlangeta, he replied, “Somebody would have pushed him off the ice when nobody else was looking.”