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Sverker Finnström, M.A., Dept. of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University


Previously published in the series Working Papers in Cultural Anthropology, No. 7, 1997. © Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University and the author.

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