Notes
The fieldwork on which this article is based was carried out in the town of Manakha from March 1974 to July 1975. It was financed by grants from the Tercentenary Fund of the Bank of Sweden, the Swedish Social Science Research Council, the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography, the Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies, and the Swedish Research Council for the Humanities. I am indebted to Unni Wikan for comments and suggestions.