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Kinship and Mode of Production

Author(s) -

Siskind Janet

Publication year - 1978

Publication title -

american anthropologist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51

H-Index - 85

eISSN - 1548-1433

pISSN - 0002-7294

DOI - 10.1525/aa.1978.80.4.02a00050

Subject(s) - kinship , division of labour , reciprocal , mode of production , categorization , production (economics) , sociology , mode (computer interface) , division (mathematics) , genealogy , political science , anthropology , history , epistemology , economics , law , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , arithmetic , mathematics , macroeconomics , operating system

This article links the basic elements of kinship and marriage to the division of labor between the sexes. The concept of a mode of production is used to analyze the distinctive features of this organization of the labor process. These features include the categorization of persons by generation and sex and a specification of reciprocal rights and obligations. It is thus argued that kinship pertains to a particular form of production rather than to an irreducible and unchangeable human nature . [kinship, division of labor by sex, mode of production]

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