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Amok syndrome, the Glossary

Amok syndrome is an aggressive dissociative behavioral pattern derived from Indonesia and Malaysia that led to the English phrase running amok.^[1]

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Active shooter

An active shooter is the perpetrator of an ongoing mass shooting. Amok syndrome and active shooter are rampages.

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Amok Time

"Amok Time" is the second season premiere episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek.

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Banzai charge

Banzai charge or Banzai attack (banzai totsugeki) is the term that was used by the Allied forces of World War II to refer to Japanese human wave attacks and swarming staged by infantry units.

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In the Old Norse written corpus, berserkers (berserkir) were those who were said to have fought in a trance-like fury, a characteristic which later gave rise to the modern English word berserk (meaning 'furiously violent or out of control').

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Columbine High School massacre

The Columbine High School massacre, often simply referred to as Columbine, was a school shooting and a failed bombing that occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, United States.

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Culture of Brunei

The culture of Brunei is strongly influenced by Malay culture and Islam.

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Culture of Indonesia

The culture of Indonesia (Budaya Indonesia) has been shaped by the interplay of indigenous customs and diverse foreign influences.

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Culture of Malaysia

The Culture of Malaysia draws on the varied cultures of the different people of Malaysia.

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Culture-bound syndrome

In medicine and medical anthropology, a culture-bound syndrome, culture-specific syndrome, or folk illness is a combination of psychiatric and somatic symptoms that are considered to be a recognizable disease only within a specific society or culture. Amok syndrome and culture-bound syndrome are culture-bound syndromes.

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM; latest edition: DSM-5-TR, published in March 2022) is a publication by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for the classification of mental disorders using a common language and standard criteria.

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Duarte Barbosa

Duarte Barbosa (c. 14801 May 1521) was a Portuguese writer and officer from Portuguese India (between 1500 and 1516).

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Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition

The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911) is a 29-volume reference work, an edition of the real Encyclopædia Britannica.

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Going postal

Going postal is an American English slang phrase referring to becoming extremely and uncontrollably angry, often to the point of violence, and usually in a workplace environment. Amok syndrome and Going postal are rampages.

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Grisi siknis

Grisi siknis (in Miskito language, from English, means "crazy sickness") is a contagious, culture-bound syndrome that occurs predominantly among the Miskito people of eastern Central America, and affects mainly young women. Amok syndrome and Grisi siknis are culture-bound syndromes.

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Hantu (supernatural creature)

Hantu is the Malay and Indonesian word for spirit or ghost.

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Honour

Honour (Commonwealth English) or honor (American English; see spelling differences) is a quality of a person that is of both social teaching and personal ethos, that manifests itself as a code of conduct, and has various elements such as valour, chivalry, honesty, and compassion.

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Hyderabad, Sindh

Hyderabad (حيدرآباد|audio.

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Iich'aa

Iich'aa (Iichʼąh, pronounced “eech aaw”, no inflexion) is a culture-bound syndrome found in the Navajo Native American culture. Amok syndrome and Iich'aa are culture-bound syndromes and rampages.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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James Cook

Captain James Cook (– 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.

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Javanese people

The Javanese (Orang Jawa; ꦮꦺꦴꦁꦗꦮ, Wong Jawa; ꦠꦶꦪꦁꦗꦮꦶ, Tiyang Jawi) are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the central and eastern part of the Indonesian island of Java.

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Jodhpur

Jodhpur is the second-largest city of the north-western Indian state of Rajasthan after its capital Jaipur.

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José Malcampo, 3rd Marquess of San Rafael

Don José Malcampo y Monge, 3rd Marquess of San Rafael (13 January 1828– 23 May 1880) was a Spanish noble, admiral and politician who participated in the Revolution of 1868 as a seaman and served as Prime Minister of Spain in 1871, during the reign of King Amadeo I. Malcampo was born in San Fernando, Cádiz.

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Juramentado

Juramentado, in Philippine history, refers to a male Moro swordsman (from the Tausug tribe of Sulu) who attacked and killed targeted occupying and invading police and soldiers, expecting to be killed himself, the martyrdom undertaken as a form of jihad, considered a form of suicide attack. Amok syndrome and Juramentado are culture-bound syndromes.

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Laurens van der Post

Sir Laurens Jan van der Post, (13 December 1906 – 15 December 1996) was a South African Afrikaner writer, farmer, soldier, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer and conservationist.

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List of rampage killers

This is a list of mass or spree killers.

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Malacca City

Malacca City (Bandaraya Melaka or Kota Melaka) is the capital city of the Malaysian state of Malacca, in Melaka Tengah District.

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Malay language

Malay (Bahasa Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو) is an Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that is also spoken in East Timor and parts of Thailand.

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Mindanao

Mindanao is the second-largest island in the Philippines, after Luzon, and seventh-most populous island in the world. Located in the southern region of the archipelago, the island is part of an island group of the same name that also includes its adjacent islands, notably the Sulu Archipelago.

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Moro people

The Moro people or Bangsamoro people are the 13 Muslim-majority ethnolinguistic Austronesian groups of Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan, native to the region known as the Bangsamoro (lit. Moro nation or Moro country).

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Musth

Musth or must (from Persian) is a periodic condition in bull (male) elephants characterized by aggressive behavior and accompanied by a large rise in reproductive hormones.

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Osama bin Laden (elephant)

Osama bin Laden was a rogue bull elephant named after the notorious terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.

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Philippine languages

The Philippine languages or Philippinic are a proposed group by R. David Paul Zorc (1986) and Robert Blust (1991; 2005; 2019) that include all the languages of the Philippines and northern Sulawesi, Indonesia—except Sama–Bajaw (languages of the "Sea Gypsies") and the Molbog language—and form a subfamily of Austronesian languages.

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Proto-Malayo-Polynesian language

Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (PMP) is the reconstructed ancestor of the Malayo-Polynesian languages, which is by far the largest branch (by current speakers) of the Austronesian language family.

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Psychogenic non-epileptic seizure

Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES), also referred to as pseudoseizures, non-epileptic attack disorder (NEAD), functional seizures, or dissociative seizures, are episodes resembling an epileptic seizure but without the characteristic electrical discharges associated with epilepsy.

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Raja

Raja (from, IAST) is a royal Sanskrit title that was historically used in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.

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Rajput

Rajput (from Sanskrit rājaputra meaning "son of a king"), also called Thakur, is a large multi-component cluster of castes, kin bodies, and local groups, sharing social status and ideology of genealogical descent originating from the Indian subcontinent.

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Road rage

Road rage is aggressive or angry behavior exhibited by motorists.

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Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting

On December 14, 2012, a mass shooting occurred at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, United States.

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Shah Jahan

Mirza Shahab-ud-Din Muhammad Khurram (5 January 1592 – 22 January 1666), also known as Shah Jahan I, was the fifth Mughal emperor, reigning from 1628 until 1658.

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Spree killer

A spree killer is someone who commits a criminal act that involves two or more murders in a short time, often in multiple locations.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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Suicide by cop

Suicide by cop (abbreviated as: SbC), also known as suicide by police or law-enforcement-assisted suicide, is a suicide method in which a suicidal individual deliberately behaves in a threatening manner with intent to provoke a lethal response from a public safety or law enforcement officer to end their own life.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amok_syndrome

Also known as Amuk, Goes amok, Going amok, Gone amok, Mal de pelea, Pengamuk, Run a muck, Run amok, Run amuck, Running Amok, Running Amuck, Running a muck, Runs amok.

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