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In the peasant world the acreage a man holds is his rank, his authority in the household and his voice in the village, so any transfer of land moves power as well as wealth. That is why marriage settlements, dowries and inheritance promises set off the deepest conflicts in a family. Kin will betray one another over a strip of field because losing it means social death, not just a smaller income.
Read village life through the seasons and the liturgical year rather than through individual choices. Ploughing, harvest, church feasts and the winter lull set when quarrels flare, when marriages are made and when the community acts together. Personal passions look large, but the rhythm of the year absorbs them and outlasts them.
A tight village keeps its order by pinning the upheaval on one person and casting her out as a group. Jagna's desirability and indifference to convention unsettle several households at once. At the end the villagers cart her out of Lipce on a dung cart, which spares the men who took part and returns the land and the families to their proper order.