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Strangers Strangers Within Simmel: "People who are close by, yet somehow remote", e.g. mobile traders are not bound by roots. Schuetz: "People without graves or reminiscences". People who come from other places - and stay. Fortes: Two ways of incorporating outsiders - kinship or law. * Kinship = connection via a common origin, or via processes of exchange over time (including feeding). * Law = connection via legal process. Central to modern notions of citizenship Strangerhood implies both spatial and temporal dislocation. Strangers inspire fear and curiosity. Briggs, lived with the Utku, Eskimo people of N. Canada: "I was first a stranger and curiosity, then a recalcitrant child and finally a confirmed irritant". Shuetz notes that strangers have: * a more critical eye on local practice * different kinds of habitual thinking * double (doubtful) loyalty Strangers are also closely observed. Fortes working in West Africa distinguished three possible kinds of relationship that could be formed...

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