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Political anthropology

a recurring pattern in which ruling power comes from an outsider who is incorporated by the native population, a structure Sahlins traces across societies.

In political anthropology, stranger-king refers to a recurring pattern in which ruling power comes from an outsider who is incorporated by the native population, a structure Sahlins traces across societies. This meaning comes from Sahlins (2008) in Indonesia and the Malay World.[1]

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References

Sahlins, M. (2008). The Stranger-king Or, Elementary Forms of the Politics of Life. Indonesia and the Malay World, 36(105), 177-199. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639810802267918

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