February 1999 Fieldnotes

Fieldnote 1

Date: 1/2/99 Time: early morning/late night Place: my room People: Language:
Topic: Kuli Kacherri notes <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 2

Date: 1/2/99 Time: afternoon Place: hotel People: Person-171 Person-82 Person-19 Language: Punjabi
Topic: Meeting people in the hotel-- discussions of poor versus rich Pakistanis <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 3

Date: 1/2/99 Time: eveniing Place: kacha road from main road to village People: Person-17 Language: English
Topic: Land dispute over road <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 4

Date: 2/2/99 Time: morning Place: my room People: Person-19 Language: Punjabi
Topic: Marriages and weddings <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 5

Date: 2/2/99 Time: last night Place: my room People: Person-15 Language: English
Topic: Zamindar authoritarianism <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 6

Date: 2/2/99 Time: all day Place: two villages other side of Fateh Jang People: Person-15 Person-108 Person-173 Language: Punjabi/English
Topic: Going to a barat wedding party <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 7

Date: 2/2/99 Time: all day Place: Bhalot-wedding villges-Tarbethy People: Person-173 Language: Punjabi
Topic: An Imam not like the others <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 8

Date: 3/2/99 Time: morning Place: my room People: Person-19 Language: Punjabi
Topic: Cruel jokes <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 9

Date: 3/2/99 Time: afternoon Place: Daggar People: Person-66 Person-174 Person-175 Person-176 Language: Punjabi/Urdu
Topic: Afternoon making film with tenant farmers <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 10

Date: 3/2/99 Time: evening Place: my room People: Person-178 Person-179 Language: Urdu
Topic: Guests and hospitality <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 11

Date: 3/2/99 Time: afternoon Place: Daggar People: Person-174 Person-177 Person-175 Person-66 Language: Urdu/Punjabi
Topic: Punjabi-Urdu words <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 12

Date: 3/2/99 Time: evening Place: fire room People: Person-35 Person-19 Person-66 Person-32 Person-180 Person-69 Person-132's Person-0 Language: Punjabi/Urdu
Topic: Meeting a Mamou <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 13

Date: 3/2/99 Time: evening Place: People: Language:
Topic: Finding a literate assistant <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 14

Date: 4/2/99 Time: morning/afternoon Place: Taxila People: Person-17 Person-36 Language: English
Topic: Long day for a short task <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 15

Date: 4/2/99 Time: evening Place: baitek People: Person-183 Language: English
Topic: Transcriber <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 16

Date: 4/2/99 Time: dinner time Place: my room People: Person-15 Person-17 Language: English
Topic: Dinner in a Pakistani home <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 17

Date: 4/2/99 Time: many times Place: village People: Person-19 Person-15 Person-17 Language: Punjabi
Topic: Servants answering back <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 18

Date: 5/2/99 Time: afternoon Place: my room People: Person-17 Language: English
Topic: Role of women in dispute settlement <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 19

Date: 5/2/99 Time: late afternoon Place: kabrestan and later my room People: Person-17 Person-25 Person-19 Language: English/Punjabi
Topic: Status markers enforced-- maybe. <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 20

Date: 5/2/99 Time: 5:00 Place: my room People: Person-19 Language: Punjabi
Topic: Invitation for film watching with one proviso <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 21

Date: 5/2/99 Time: last night Place: my room People: Person-185 Person-15 Person-17 Language: Punjabi
Topic: Example of zamindar/zakat committee services <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 22

Date: 5/2/99 Time: throughout day off and on Place: my room People: Language: Urdu
Topic: Transcribing kuli kacherri video <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 23

Date: 6/2/99 Time: noon Place: baitek People: Person-19 Person-187's Person-0 Person-188 Person-189 Person-140 Language: Punjabi
Topic: Cricket match interferance <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 24

Date: 6/2/99 Time: last night Place: baitek/fire room People: Person-15 Language: Punjabi
Topic: Gamblers fight-- aftermath settlement <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 25

Date: 6/2/99 Time: evening Place: my room People: Person-26 Language: English
Topic: zamindar arbitration and Hindus in Bhalot <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 26

Date: 7/2/99 Time: last night Place: my room People: Person-69 Person-85 Language: English
Topic: Intra family disputes-- checking stories <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 27

Date: 7/2/99 Time: midday Place: Thatha Khalil People: Person-194 Language: Enlgish/Urdu
Topic: Waleema- wedding celebration <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 28

Date: 7/2/99 Time: midday Place: GT Road People: Person-194 Person-196 Language: Urdu/Punjabi
Topic: Being stopped by the police <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 29

Date: 7/2/99 Time: yesterday all afternoon till late evening Place: neighbour's house People: Person-198 Language: Punjabi/English
Topic: Malik ladies borrowing my video camera <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 30

Date: 7/2/99 Time: last night Place: upper dhÈra People: Person-69 Person-85 Language: English
Topic: website request <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 31

Date: 7/2/99 Time: Place: Thatha Khalil People: Person-200 Language: Urdu
Topic: Zamindar from Pind Noshéri <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 32

Date: 7/2/99 Time: night Place: my room People: Person-15 Language: English/Punjabi
Topic: What to do with barren lands. <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 33

Date: 7/2/99 Time: late night Place: my room People:
Topic: Checking out the new edd. <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 34

Date: 8/2/99 Time: last night Place: my room People: Person-201 Person-15 Person-151 Language: Punjabi/English
Topic: Seeking my help with Dr. Lal <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 35

Date: 8/2/99 Time: midday Place: my room People: Person-194
Topic: Field Assistant <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 36

Date: 8/2/99 Time: afternoon Place: my room People: Person-131 Language: Punjabi
Topic: Purdah and marriage among poorer people and past generations <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 37

Date: 9/2/99 Time: morning Place: buffalo house People: Person-202 Person-203
Topic: Female malangi <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 38

Date: 9/2/99 Time: morning Place: flour mill on main road People: Person-182 Language: Punjabi
Topic: Banjr lands <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 39

Date: 9/2/99 Time: morning Place: Taxila Christian Hospital People: Person-205 Person-206
Topic: English/Punjabi <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 40

Date: 9/2/99 Time: noon Place: Taxila- bathera centre People: Person-208 Person-209 Language: Urdu/Punjabi
Topic: Tea in the bathera cafe <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 41

Date: 9/2/99 Time: past week or so Place: everywhere People: Language: Urdu/Punjabi
Topic: Whispering for discretion <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 42

Date: 9/2/99 Time: morning Place: Daggar People: Person-17 Person-210 Person-44 Person-90 Person-211
Topic: Sowing sunflowers <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 43

Date: 9/2/99 Time: afternoon Place: my room People: Person-201 Language: Punjabi
Topic: Syaing thank you with popcorn <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 44

Date: 9/2/99 Time: late evening Place: my room People: Person-15
Topic: Land disputes/sales/politics <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 45

Date: 10/9/99 Time: morning to evening Place: my room People:
Topic: Phone habits <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 46

Date: 10/2/99 Time: morning Place: Fateh Jang People: Person-15 Person-24 Person-213 Person-214 Language: Urdu/English
Topic: Meeting and greeting in Tehsil HQ <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 47

Date: 11/2/99 Time: morning Place: my room People: Person-26
Topic: Death announcement ans money proverbs <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 48

Date: 11/2/99 Time: morning Place: school and main road of village People: Person-26 Person-215 Language: Punjabi
Topic: Discussing plans for girls school improvements <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 49

Date: 11/2/99 Time: midday Place: school People: Person-26
Topic: land price discrepencies <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 50

Date: 11/2/99 Time: midday Place: school People: Person-217 Language: Punjabi/Urdu
Topic: Cement factory workers from Bhalot <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 51

Date: 11/2/99 Time: midday Place: school People: Person-219 Language: Punjabi/Urdu
Topic: Another Pathan family uncovered <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 52

Date: 11/2/99 Time: Place: roads People: Person-222
Topic: Roadside worker `safety' clothing <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 53

Date: 11/2/99 Time: evening Place: fire room People: Person-18 Person-35 Person-141 Person-19 Person-70 Person-86 Person-223
Topic: Young men's justice <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 54

Date: 12/2/99 Time: morning Place: orchard area People: Person-15 Person-189 Person-131 Person-182
Topic: Documenting field condtion <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 55

Date: 13/2/99 Time: yesterday and today Place: Islamabad People: Person-19
Topic: Kidnapping/disappearance of a brother in Islamabad. <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 56

Date: 13/2/99 Time: midday Place: my room People: Person-18
Topic: Buying goats/sheep/buffalos/cows <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 57

Date: 13/2/99 Time: evening Place: my room People: Person-36 Person-26
Topic: Farming in India versus Pakistan and other problems <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 58

Date: 13/2/99 Time: evening Place: my room People: Person-26
Topic: Terms of respect <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 59

Date: 13/2/99 Time: evening Place: my room People: Person-26
Topic: Malik family road dispute <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 60

Date: 13/2/99 Time: a few days ago Place: dhÈra People: Person-35 Person-70
Topic: Cigarette status <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 61

Date: 14/2/99 Time: evening Place: dhÈra People: Person-140 Person-18 Person-35
Topic: Asking offensive questions <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 62

Date: 15/2/99 Time: all day Place: Islamabad People: Person-68
Topic: Day out in Islamabad-- travel by wagon and suzuki <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 63

Date: 15/2/99 Time: Place: Cement factories in the area People:
Topic: Cement factory production <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 64

Date: 16/2/99 Time: all day Place: village People:
Topic: Slow day <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 65

Date: 17/2/99 Time: 2 days ago Place: village People: Person-26
Topic: 2 men arrested in village <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 66

Date: 17/2/99 Time: evening Place: my room People: Person-229 Person-19 Person-17
Topic: Grounding my electrical outlets <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 67

Date: 18/2/99 Time: yesterday midday Place: in front of hotel People: Person-76 Person-230 Person-231 Person-232
Topic: Further to recent arrests <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 68

Date: 18/2/99 Time: yesterday midday Place: in front of hotel./barbershop People: Person-230
Topic: Driver relationship <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 69

Date: 18/2/99 Time: midday Place: Gujari dhÈra People: Person-87 Person-235 Person-161 Person-237 Person-19 Language: Punjabi/Pukhto/Gujari
Topic: Meeting/filming Gujari speaker family <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 70

Date: 18/2/99 Time: afternoon Place: path behind private school People: Person-19 Person-240 Language: Punjabi
Topic: Meeting my friend's little daughter <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 71

Date: 19/2/99 Time: morning (9:00) Place: my room People: Person-241
Topic: Early morning visitors <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 72

Date: 19/2/99 Time: late morning Place: People:
Topic: Event avoidance <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 73

Date: 19/2/99 Time: afternoon Place: my room People: Person-19
Topic: Assistant's family <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 74

Date: 19/2/99 Time: afternoon Place: my room People: Person-19
Topic: Conversation with my assistant about tenant farmers <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 75

Date: 19/2/99 Time: afternoon (2:30-6:00) Place: my room People:
Topic: Holiday and universality of music <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 76

Date: 20/2/99 Time: yesterday Place: baitek People: Person-242 Person-243
Topic: Missing news item on PTV <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 77

Date: 20/2/99 Time: evening Place: hotel People: Person-244
Topic: Fraternal tension <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 78

Date: 20/2/99 Time: evening Place: outside my room People: Person-237
Topic: Going into the sheep business <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 79

Date: 20/2/99 Time: morning/midday Place: Taxila museum and archaelogical sites People: Person-16 Person-9 Person-246 Person-247 Person-248 Person-15 Person-108 Person-249 Person-250's Person-0
Topic: Visiting Londoners in Taxila and Bhalot <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 80

Date: 21/2/99 Time: morning Place: my room People: Person-26
Topic: Hindu and Sikh friends gone to India <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 81

Date: 22/2/99 Time: last night Place: main road People: Person-19
Topic: Death in the village <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 82

Date: 22/2/99 Time: yesterday/last night Place: Outside village People: Person-18 Person-223 Person-252 Person-76 Person-253 Person-254
Topic: Evening of discrete activities <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 83

Date: 22/2/99 Time: last night Place: isolated dhÈra People: Person-254
Topic: Conversation with Christian <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 84

Date: 22/2/99 Time: morning Place: isolated dhÈra and road People: Person-18
Topic: More on family disputes and violent disputes <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 85

Date: 22/2/99 Time: afternoon- past two days Place: People:
Topic: Intrernationl internet link down <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 86

Date: 24/2/99 Time: midday Place: motorway land and tubewell land People: Person-237 Person-223 Person-19 Person-44 Person-258 Person-237's Person-0 Person-87 Language: Punjabi/Pukhto
Topic: Day with the Pathans-- larai (fight), Hazara zamindars/Peshawri zamindars <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 87

Date: 24/2/99 Time: Place: People: Person-260 Person-261
Topic: Punjabi versus Pathan violence <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 88

Date: 24/2/99 Time: evening Place: bait'hek People: Person-152 Person-223 Person-19 Person-140 Person-262 Language: Punjabi
Topic: Games <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 89

Date: 24/2/99 Time: past five days Place: village People: Person-19
Topic: Rumours about my missing telephone <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 90

Date: 25/2/99 Time: all day Place: Pind Ghokra, Sultanpur, Mung People: Person-17 Person-26 Person-24
Topic: Deception, weddings and pir families <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 91

Date: 25/2/99 Time: late night Place: my room People: Person-19 Language: Punjabi
Topic: Opinion about what will happen to my sheep. <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 92

Date: 25/2/99 Time: night Place: bait'hek People:
Topic: Television watching-- personalities and music <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 93

Date: 26/2/99 Time: morning Place: livestock `mundi' People: Person-237 Person-223 Language: Pukhto/Punjabi
Topic: Buying a sheep (léla) <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 94

Date: 26/2/99 Time: day and night Place: Taxila/my room People: Person-26 Person-36 Person-15 Person-141
Topic: Pakistanis and prices <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 95

Date: 26/2/99 Time: evening Place: village People:
Topic: Another death-- no music played in the village tonight <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 96

Date: 26/2/99 Time: evening Place: my room and just in front People:
Topic: Wild dogs in the village <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 97

Date: 27/2/99 Time: yesterday afternoon Place: Taxila People: Person-223 Language: Punjabi
Topic: Details about a Pathan's past <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 98

Date: 27/2/99 Time: morning Place: my room People: Person-223 Language: Pukhto/Punjabi/Urdu
Topic: singing <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 99

Date: 27/2/99 Time: afternoon Place: my room People: Person-76 Language: Punjabi
Topic: Conversation with Lohari Awan <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 100

Date: 27/2/99 Time: evening Place: garage in front of my room People: Person-17
Topic: Violent family rift of previous generation <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 101

Date: 27/2/99 Time: morning Place: my room People: Person-223 Language: Punjabi
Topic: Wedding age and quaum preference among poor Pathans <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 102

Date: 28/2/99 Time: last night Place: bait'hek People: Person-223 Person-273
Topic: Taking care of guests and friends who are ill. <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 103

Date: 28/2/99 Time: morning Place: school People: Person-15
Topic: Waiting for government reps <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 104

Date: 28/2/99 Time: midday Place: disputed land by road People: Person-151
Topic: Police visit to disputed land <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 105

Date: 28/2/99 Time: yesterday afternoon Place: ? People: Person-275 Person-276
Topic: Wahabis causing trouble at a janaza (funeral prayers) <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 106

Date: 28/2/99 Time: afternoon Place: my assistant's house People: Person-19 Person-19's Person-0 Person-277 Person-240
Topic: Tea and chat with my assistant's mother in law, daughter, mamou/sala <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 107

Date: 28/2/99 Time: afternoon Place: my room People: Person-17 Person-18 Person-35 Language: Punjabi
Topic: Wahabi vs village tradition argument <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 108

Date: 28/2/99 Time: evening Place: my room People:
Topic: copy of outgoing email-- my day's activities <--!xsl:else /-->

Fieldnote 109

Date: 28/2/99 Time: evening Place: my room People: Person-26
Topic: More on wahabi vs. village tradition <--!xsl:else /-->