Abstract
The monolithic view of culture is inadequate for understanding the transformations which take place when strangers with heterogeneous sociocultural origins meet. Problems of the plurality of codes, of switching between alternatives, and the recoding of inequality and differentiation require special conceptualisation. Drawing on the careers of a series of personal security cults, including the External Boghar cult with its extension beyond Taleland to the cocoa farms of southern Ghana, this article puts forward a general framework of regional analysis to illuminate these and other problems of boundary transcendence. It is suggested that shifts in cults from an 'exotic' to an 'indigenous' mode relate to changes in the predicament of strangers with varied conditions of cultural and political encapsulation.
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