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In the Marxist theory of historical materialism, a mode of production (German: Produktionsweise, "the way of producing") is a specific combination of the: . Productive forces: these include human labour power and means of production (tools, machinery, factory buildings, infrastructure, technical knowledge, raw materials, plants, animals, exploitable land).
Biblical scholars have also argued that the mode of production seen in early Hebrew society was a communitarian domestic one that was akin to primitive communism. [ 80 ] [ 81 ] Claude Meillassoux has commented on how the mode of production seen in many primitive societies is a communistic domestic one.
Political economy in anthropology is the application of the theories and methods of historical materialism to the ... In the kin-ordered mode of production, social ...
The expression adaptive strategies is used by anthropologist Yehudi Cohen to describe a society's system of economic production.Cohen argued that the most important reason for similarities between two (or more) unrelated societies is their possession of a similar adaptive strategy.
In the kin-ordered mode of production, social labour is mobilized through kin relations (such as lineages), although his description makes its exact relations with tributary and capitalist modes unclear. The kin mode was further theorized by French structuralist Marxists in terms of 'articulated modes of production.'
Anthropology is the study of humans both past and present. Anthropology is most simply defined as the study of humans across time and space. [ 30 ] In studying a human culture, an anthropologist studies the material culture of the people in question as well as the people themselves and their interactions with others.
The social production of space is a concept in the sociology of space which contends that space is neither a thing nor a container, but a product and means of production. Thus, space is produced and constructed socially and a set of human relations. [1] It was pioneered by philosopher Henri Lefebvre in his 1974 book La Production de l'espace. [2]
Social formation (German: Gesellschaftsformation) is a Marxist concept (synonymous with 'society') referring to the concrete, historical articulation between the capitalist mode of production, maintaining pre-capitalist modes of production, and the institutional context of the economy (disambiguation).