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This was originally a paper delivered to a conference of the second annual meeting of the Swedish Anthropological Association, in Kungälv, March 1993. The general theme of the conference was “Culture: shared and distributed.” I thank the participants for their helpful and encouraging comments. Thanks to Moshe Shokeid, Ulla Wagner, Aud Talle, and Johan Norman for valuable comments on earlier versions. I also wish to acknowledge the interesting comments and suggestions made by the anonymous reviewer of this article.

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