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Abstract
Stranger-king formations in Indonesia and Oceania are set in the larger context of similar polities the world around. Across these societies, the same structures of the potency of alterity appear in a variety of political forms – the experiential archetype of which, it is argued, is the transaction of vitality between consanguinal and affinal kindreds. The conclusion is that elementary forms of kinship and politics are one.