chayanov: lize-anne

I also found Chayanov's review of the running of the farm interesting. His point about the agricultural festival taking nearly as much time as labor itself as being counterproductive points out our limitations as anthropologists looking at non-anthropologically based sources to make deductions about family and household. To these people, perhaps the festivals were an integral part of a bountiful harvest. If he so easily pegged this practice as ineffective, I wonder what he left out or imposed bias upon.
The family unit is the very basis of the farm structure, and begins to change as it comes in contact with urban life. Chayanov explains that as this happens the desired standard of living rises for the family and they must then engage in more work in order to supply increased demand. This brings to question how the roles of family members themselves change in order to meet this increased demand. It not only means that more profitably work outside the home must be done, but also the division of labor within the house presumably changes. It would be interesting to look at these and how they shift