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Indonesia and the Malay World Volume 36, 2008 - Issue 105: Stranger-kings in Indonesia and beyond
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THE STRANGER-KING OR, ELEMENTARY FORMS OF THE POLITICS OF LIFE

Marshall Sahlins
Pages 177-199 | Published online: 29 Sep 2009
 
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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.

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