distorted. They see capitalist coordination and regularityi as having magico-religious effects and as a spontaneous manifestation of social harmony. They do so even though as migrant workers they have experienced the coercive nature ofsuch laborprocesses and though there is cultural precedent for sensitivity to restraints on autonomy in the labor process. This misperception contributes to the legitimation of colonial and post-colonial inlequalities and furthers villagers' inculcation with Western temporal orientations anid work habits. Kragur villagers have had enough autonomy to create an understanding that incorporates indigenous concepts and values. Yet the dominance of Western capitalist economic, political and cultural institutions has been such that the product of villagers' speculations has unanticipated ideological functions and potentials.