Barbara Tedlock refers to these K'iche' ritual specialists as priestly shaman and shamanly priest (Tedlock 1993:46-85).

Allison's words of warning to her sister Vanya express a common and everyday concern for many women.

The most determined exertions of that authority, against them, only showed their radical independence.

Different areas of Southeast Asia received Chinese emigrants from different regions of China, so that in the Nanyang an enormous diversity can be found, reflecting the diversity of regions and villages from whence the emigrants flowed. Some sense of this diversity, and the dominance in each of the nations of the Nanyang by people from one or two specific regions of China, can be obtained from Tables 1 and 2. Table 1 depicts the major language groups of the emigrants as well as the regions in China where those languages were spoken. Table 2 sets out the distribution by Southeast Asian country of Chinese regional dialects and shows the diversity that exists from country to country.