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38. Wheat growing and human life cycles

Receiving and distributing

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Before agriculture was practised on an industrial scale, the production of wheat spread over almost twelve months. The important stages in the peasant calendar related to sharing out and storing the harvest are evoked here through ancient and contemporary objects. We find the idea of reciprocity which governed the management of resources in those times, involving self-sufficiency and dependence between the various members of the community at each stage.

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