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Chapter Eight. The Harvest |
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ownership of fields by individuals and morungs |
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The majority of the fields are cultivated by individual families, though sometimes with the help of hired labour. Yet some fields are cultivated by groups, for, otherwise, from where would the morung get the rice for its feasts? Every man must contribute to the work on his morung's field, and on certain days you can see all the members of the morung leaving the village together instead of in the usual twos and threes; the boys and the girls to work and the old men to sit and look on. |
