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Words or passages in hrackets^ which occur in a direct quotation of 

 an informant, represent : 



(1) Nonverbal activities of the informant, e.g., [pause] or 

 [mimicks] . 



(2) Verbal or nonverbal activities of persons other than the main 

 narrator. 



(3) Questions and remarks of the interviewing anthropologist. 

 (Q) and [Q] symbolize a question asked by the anthropologist, 



where the nature of the question can be unequivocally inferred from 

 the answer given by the informant. For example: "(Q) Of course 

 I went," stands for: ''''Anthropologist. — Did you go? Informant. — 

 Of course I went." 



Fine print. — On the whole, all passages in fine print are either 

 direct quotations of informants or of printed sources, or else are 

 explanatoiy remarks and comments pertaining to these direct 

 quotations. 



Quotation marks. — Certain teclinical terms with which some anthro- 

 pological readers may perhaps not be familiar ("primary process"), 

 certain newly coined expressions ("signal symptom"), a few colloquial 

 expressions which may puzzle foreign readers, and some significant 

 expressions used by an informant (e.g., "he," when referring to a 

 female transvestite claiming male status) are usually placed in 

 quotation marks. 



PHONETIC SYSTEM 



a as in park 



a approximately as tlie u in but • 



e as in get 



h as in French tiMe 



i as in pit 



o as in rock 



u as in put 



c as the sh in shoe 



dh as the th in the 



h is a true h, but with some friction, as the ch in German Rache 



kh is a front velar 



k(w) is a labiovelar, somewhat as thequ in quest 



ly is a palatalized 1, somewhat as in lure 



ny is a palatalized n, as in Spanish canon 



q a back velar 



s as in son 



tc as the ch in chew 



th as in thought 



ts as the z in German Zeit 



: indicates that the preceding vowel is long [i :=continental i as in machine] 



' a very slight glottal stop 



Consonants in parentheses are barely audible, see above: k(w) 



a occurs not in Mohave, but in Sedang, and is pronounced as the vowel in raw 



