HIS102Y1 Lecture 8: Lecture 8.docx
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To have a mode of production you have to have the means, forces, and relations. The tools and equipment which are appropriated from the natural world or which are constructed from its products for purposes of producing subsistence and material needs. How people organize and utilize the means as producers. These denote how people stand in relation to their productive means and therefore how people stand in relation to each other. In pre-colonial africa we want to look at these relations through societies most elemental organizing structure kinship. We want to argue that to many pre-colonial societies, kinship was a relation of production: kinship terms wife, husband, sister, brother, etc. The central concepts in the kinship production relations are sisterhood, brotherhood, and wifehood or husbandhood. Defines sister and wife as a kind of kinship shorthand of a woman member of a community of owners or the means of production.
