Reminds me of that famous story: ...the Eskimos have a word, kunlangeta, which means "his mind knows what to do but he does not do it." This is an abstract ter

Reminds me of that famous story: ...the Eskimos have a word, kunlangeta, which means "his mind knows what to do but he does not do it." This is an abstract term for the breaking of many rules when awareness of the rules is not in question. It 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-someone who does not pay attention to reprimands and who is always being brought to the elders for punishment. One Eskimo among the 499 was called kunlangeta. When asked what would have happened to such a person traditionally, an Eskimo said that probably "somebody would have pushed him off the ice when nobody else was looking." ... It is of considerable interest that kunlan- geta and arankan are not behaviors that the shamans and healers are believed to be able to cure or change.