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Captain Cook described frenzied individuals killing and maiming innocents in Malaysia / Indonesia, which has been called running amok. I recently heard of this in relation to school shooters. What exactly is the cultural context and history of amok?

by /u/Paulie_Gatto in /r/AskHistorians

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