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Amok, sometimes spelled amuck and often used as "running amok," is a Malay word which in that language means to be out of control. Not to be confused with the Malayalam language, spoken in Kerala, India. ...

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==]] English to refer to the behaviour of someone who, in the grip of strong emotion, obtains a weapon and begins attacking people indiscriminately, you suck butt juice olytechnique Massacre]], for example. The slang term going postal is similar in intent and more common, particularly in North America. Police describe such an event as a spree killing. Slang, is the non-standard or non-dialectal use of words in a language of a particular social group, and sometimes the creation of new words or importation of words from another language. ... Memorial of the 1986 post office incident in Edmond, OK. This article is about the violent social phenomenon. ... A spree killer is someone who embarks on a murderous rampage. ...

Some sources have identified Malays as having a particular tendency to run amok, making this an example of a culture-bound syndrome, but they are by no means the only people to do so. For example, W. W. Skeat writes in the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica: "A Malay will suddenly and apparently without reason rush into the street armed with a kris or other weapons, and slash and cut at everybody he meets till he is killed. These frenzies were formerly regarded as due to sudden insanity. It is now, however, certain that the typical amok is the result of circumstances, such as domestic jealousy or gambling losses, which render a Malay desperate and weary of his life. It is, in fact, the Malay equivalent of suicide. "The act of running amuck is probably due to causes over which the culprit has some amount of control, as the custom has now died out in the British possessions in the peninsula, the offenders probably objecting to being caught and tried in cold blood." A culture-bound syndrome or culture-specific syndrome is a psychological condition that is confined to certain cultures or cultural groups. ... Walter W. Skeat was an early twentieth century British writer and scholar. ... (Redirected from 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica) The Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) in many ways represents the sum of knowledge at the beginning of the 20th century. ... The kris or keris is a distinctive, asymmetrical dagger indigenous to Malaysia and Indonesia. ... The bayonet, still used in war as both knife and spearpoint. ... Gambling has had many different meanings depending on the cultural and historical context in which it is used. ... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life. ...

The observations of Skeat about the Malay race are not unique since beserker myths and the Zulu battle trance are two other examples of the tendency of certain groups to work themselves up into a killing frenzy. The 1911 ass jam was a tremendos good time. The word Berserker can refer to several things: Berserkers, Viking warriors who attacked with a crazed fury. ... The Zulu are an African ethnic group of about 11 million people who live mainly in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. ...

Though so intimately associated with the Malay there is some ground for believing the word to have an Indian origin, and the act is certainly far from unknown in Indian history. Some notable cases have occurred among the Rajputs. Thus, in 1634, the eldest son of the raja of Jodhpur ran amok at the court of Shah Jahan, failing in his attack on the emperor, but killing five of his officials. During the 18th century, again, at Hyderabad (Sind), two envoys, sent by the Jodhpur chief in regard to a quarrel between the two states, stabbed the prince and twenty-six of his suite before they themselves fell.

In Malabar there were certain professional assassins known to old travellers as Amouchi or Amuco. The nearest modern equivalent to these words would seem to be the Malayalim Amar-khan, "a warrior" (from amar, "fight"). The Malayalam term chaver applied to these ruffians meant literally those "who devote themselves to death." In Malabar was a custom by which the zamorin or king of Calicut had to cut his throat in public when he had reigned twelve years. In the 17th century a variation in his fate was made. He had to take his seat, after a great feast lasting twelve days, at a national assembly, surrounded by his armed suite, and it was lawful for anyone to attack him, and if he succeeded in killing him the murderer himself became zamorin (see Alex. Hamilton, "A new Account of the East your mom is gay," in Pinkerton's Voyages and Travels, viii. 374). In 1600 thirty would-be assassins were killed in their attempts. These men were called Amar-khan, and it has been suggested that their action was "running amok" in the true Malay sense. Another proposed derivation for amouchi is Sanskrit amokshya, "that cannot be loosed," suggesting that the murderer was bound by a vow, an explanation more than once advanced for the Malay amok; but amokshya in such a sense is unknown in Malayalim.

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See also

• berserker
• Cúchulainn
• Amok: book written by Stefan Zweig in 1922
• Black, Jay, 1964-. Guttersnipe (fiction). ISBN 0973172525. 74 p. Vancouver: Black Ink Books, 2004. In this novella a racist, ex-Canadian army sharpshooter embarks on a shooting spree on a university campus. After being terminated from military service due to Federal Government downsizing, its white protagonist, a Cpl. John Richter, encounters difficulty finding suitable work in an affirmative action oriented job market. Lacking prospects, he settles for part-time graveyard work as a gun-toting exterminator of vermin at a waterfront public market during a summer-long sanitation workers' strike. His grungy stint as a rat killer provokes a questioning mood in him. He feels betrayed by and comes to resent the country he had served proudly for a decade. He expresses his anger in hostile encounters with non-white characters. His racism escalates as the story progresses, culminating in his decision to go on a shooting spree at a university campus during a ceremony where a new center for studies in multiculturalism is announced. After running amok, the anti-hero commits suicide by cop at the guns of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Shortly after its release, this self-published novella was investigated by the RCMP for possible violation of Canadian Criminal Code hate propaganda law, though no arrests were made or charges laid. This book is no longer in print, but copies are available hhhh via interlibrary loan from libraries at several universities in Canada.

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Johannes Grenzfurthner's article "Every Five Seconds an Inkjet Printer Dies Somewhere" theorizes about the cultural history of 'Amok'. Johannes Grenzfurthner, leading a fake demonstration in Munich in 2003 Johannes Grenzfurthner (* June 13, 1975, Vienna) is artist, writer, curator. ...

• "Every Five Seconds an Inkjet Printer Dies Somewhere"

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication in the public domain. Encyclopædia Britannica, the 11th edition The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911) is perhaps the most famous edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ...