Domestic Mode Of Production Research Articles

Mujhay Na Kha Jana! : Women and Food in Faseeh Bari Khan’s "Burns Road Ki Nilofer"

This paper is a materialist feminist study of Pakistani writer, Faseeh Bari Khan’s comedic telefilm, “Burns Road Ki Nilofer”, translated as “Nilofer of Burns Road”. A recurrent motif in Pakistani comedic telefilms is of women, both married and single, portrayed as beasts with voracious appetites and insatiable consumption patterns. This paper expounds how Khan’s female characters are portrayed as women of agency who, by claiming the right to comment on the desiring, economy and distribution of food, rise beyond their stereotypical representations of gluttonous eaters. Following Lisa Angelella’s scholarship on food and feminism, I posit that both Nilofer and her mother, Saeeda, try to negotiate their sense of selfhood and approach what it means to be a woman and a human via their conversations on food in the telefilm. My research aims to unravel the underlying dominant factor in their crippled sense of self while also retaining within it a muffled identification of female agency when the female characters consume as per their desiring. The void that women wish to fill while devouring great amounts of food, is occasioned by the absence of women’s positionality as a class in a patriarchal capitalist society where, as materialist feminist scholar Christine Delphy propounds, they are not made part of the system of “exchange of values” despite their domestic “labor” (“The Main Enemy” 73). Thus, this research reimagines womanhood and women’s exploitation in a domestic mode of production within Pakistani patriarchal capitalist cartographies.Keywords: Materialist feminism, feminist food studies, Pakistani television, female selfhood, female appetite

La I Edad del Hierro en la cuenca media del Duero: arquitectura doméstica y formas de poder político durante la Facies Soto (siglos IX-VII a.C.)

El texto analiza las trasformaciones de la arquitectura doméstica durante el tránsito entre la Fase Inicial y Plena de la Facies Soto, I-Edad del Hierro en el sector central de la cuenca del Duero. Se conectan tales modificaciones con los cambios políticos desarrollados en comunidades autosuficientes estructuradas bajo el Modo de producción doméstico. El nuevo marco político conlleva trastornos en las relaciones de reproducción social basadas en intercambios simétricos, sustituidas por otras de carácter competitivo y en intercambios asimétricos. Se examina la relación de estos últimos con alianzas establecidas con comunidades foráneas y la contribución al proceso de transformación que tienen las ideas y los materiales exóticos procedentes de las relaciones externas.

Households and Hierarchy: Domestic Modes of Production in Leeward Kohala, Hawai'i Island

ABSTRACT This article describes archaeological evidence for the transformation of Hawaiian society from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries AD. Using archaeological testing of households coupled with high-resolution survey data, we trace changes in the domestic mode of production in late pre-contact Hawai'i. These analyses yield insights into the transformation of Polynesia's most highly stratified society. The traditional land units (ahupua'a) of Makiloa and Kālala, located on the arid, leeward coast of Kohala, Hawai'i, are investigated with both survey and excavation, and detailed information pertaining to subsistence, household extent, and material culture are reviewed. Changes in the economy and configuration of households from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries AD are discussed, as are the appearance of elite residences in the later periods. This microscale perspective on the evolution of Hawaiian economy and society provides a necessary complement to a macroscale perspective of human ecodynamics in the Hawaiian archipelago.

Understanding Maring Marriage: A Question of the Analytic Utility of the Domestic Mode of Production

Understanding Maring Marriage: A Question of the Analytic Utility of the Domestic Mode of Production

Women First? On the Legacy of ‘Primitive Communism’

One of the most important contributions to the study of the Hebrew Bible in the last 25 years is the argument for a mode of production unique to early Israel. Variously called the communitarian (Norman Gottwald), household (Carol Meyers), domestic (David Jobling and Ronald Simkins), or familial (Gail Yee), such a mode of production urges a firm basis in the study of political economics or Marxism. However, another feature of these arguments (apart from Simkins) is that such a mode of production was at least comparatively better for women. The concern of this article is to trace such a motif back through the work of biblical scholars to Marshall Sahlins, the anthropologist who first proposed the domestic mode of production, and then to the crucial work of Friedrich Engels, Lewis Henry Morgan, and J.J. Bachofen. What this article finds is that primitive communism has a more durable legacy in biblical studies than may at first appear.

The Domestic Mode of Production in Post-Soviet Siberia?

A partir du concept de mode domestique de production propose par Marshall Sahlins, l'A. a etudie quelques aspects de la vie rurale actuelle en ex-URSS aupres de familles Buryat. Cet article montre comment le mode domestique de production devrait etre reinterprete comme une rationalite plus culturelle qu'economique. La decollectivisation et la privatisation recentes des terres ont pose des questions aux reformateurs, comparables a celles de Shallins : comment peut-on intensifier la production sur des parcelles inidividuelles, et quel modele de leadership peut-il contrecarrer la tendance a l'anarchie inidividualiste ?

Village fissioning in Amazônia: a critique of monocausal determinism

Deterministic theories proposing the existence of limiting factors to cultural development in Amazonia are criticized here. An alternative hypothesis based on the concept of “domestic mode of production” is suggested based on the discussion of two case studies.

History, Power, Ideology: Central Issues in Marxism and Anthropology (review)

294 Book Reviews Note 1. See, for example, Paul B. Henze, The Horn of Africa: From War to Peace (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991); David A. Korn, Ethiopia, The United States, and the Soviet Union (London: Croom Helm, 1986); Marina Ottaway, Soviet and American Influence in the Horn ofAfrica (New York: Praeger, 1982); and Bruce D. Porter, The USSR in Third World Conflicts: Soviet Arms and Diplomacy in Local Wars, 1945-1980 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984). History, Power, Ideology: Central Issues in Marxism and Anthropology Donald L. Donham Cambridge: Cambridge University Press/Editions de Ia Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Cambridge/Paris, 1990. 242 pp. Rarely could so much intellectual brilliance and meticulous scholarship have been expended to such stultifying effect as in the debates of the 1970s about the "relevance" of Marxism to the analysis of "noncapitalist social formations." The trouble lay in what the debate took for granted: the validity of the capitalist/noncapitalist dichotomy. This, of course, was just one of many versions of the "us and them" categorization of the world on which anthropology was founded. It is only now beginning to confront this problem as it attempts to overcome "otherness "—the tendency to define "them" as residual to "us"—while preserving difference. In this book, Donham has attempted a truly anthropological critique of Marxism, with the aim of constructing a relevant and defensible historical materialism. His critique consists, essentially, in showing that Marxism has been encumbered with the concepts and categories of the very capitalist system which it has sought to demystify. Such a task requires comparison; it requires gaining a perspective on capitalism (and, therefore, Marxism) from a safe distance. Donham finds this distance in his ethnographic study of Boia, a settlement of 500-odd households in Maale, southwestern Ethiopia, which he has already reported on in his book Work and Power in Maale, Ethiopia (UMI Research Press, 1985). Book Reviews 195 He begins, in Chapter 1 (which first appeared in Man, 1981, pp. 515-41, under the title "Beyond the Domestic Mode of Production") by gaining a perspective on neoclassical models, applying Chayanov's dependency ratio theory and Sahlins's revision of it (still, according to Donham, essentially neoclassical) to household production in Bola. While neither theory accounts for the observed facts, they do lead to a "more rigorous and fine-grained analysis" (p. 46) which in turn reveals the general limits of neoclassicism: its "helplessness before histOTy" and its "lack of analysis of domination" (p. 48). This is where a historical materialist model is needed, but it cannot simply be found, or unearthed , in the works of Marx; it has to be constructed "not only from Marx's works but from those of his critics" (p. 51). This is attempted in Chapter 2, a beautifully clear exposition of recent discussions in Marxist theory, focusing particularly on how inequalities in relation to production ("productive inequalities" in Donham 's terminology) are regularly reproduced, and on what we should understand when it is stated that productive inequalities "determine" the superstructure ("reproductive schemata"). Donham follows G. A. Cohen's functional reading of determination—a certain set of productive inequalities select a certain set of reproductive schemata because they are consistent with (i.e., have positive consequences for) that particular set of inequalities. In this sense, the superstructure helps to explain the continuance of productive inequalities as weU as being explained by them. Of course, there are always functional alternatives to any particular set of reproductive schemata; one can only examine what did happen at a particular place and time, not what had to happen (p. 136). Thus Donham is led back, in Chapters 3 and 4, to Bola. Chapter 3 is an attempt to use Marxist theory to reveal the processes that reproduce household inequalities over time. The key concept here is fertility: Whereas in reality the success of men and women in accumulating wealth and in bearing children depended on their own productive and procreative powers, the way that labour was organised in Maale made it appear as if that success depended on other people's fertility: that of the king and chiefs in the first place, that of de- 196...

The Household Economy: Reconsidering the Domestic Mode of Production. RICHARD R. WILK, ed

<i>The Household Economy: Reconsidering the Domestic Mode of Production.</i> RICHARD R. WILK, ed

The Image of Limited Production: Envy and the Domestic Mode of Production in Peasant Society

The Image of Limited Production: Envy and the Domestic Mode of Production in Peasant Society