ABSTRACT
The household [in the domestic mode of production] is as such charged with production, with the deployment and use of labor power, with the determination of the economic objective. Its own inner relations, as between husband and wife, parent and child, are the principal relations of production. … The built-in etiquette of kinship statuses, the dominance and subordination of domestic life, the reciprocity and cooperation, here make the ‘economic’ a modality of the intimate. … [D]omestic decisions … are taken primarily with a view toward domestic contentment. Production is geared to the family's customary requirements. Production is for the benefit of the producers. (Sahlins 1974: 77)
