Family and Marriage in Primitive Society

The development of mode of production corresponds to the development human Society from its primitive stages. there were three stages of development of the mode of production of the primitive society.
1. At first the people of the primitive society took the weapons as they received in the nature, such as , a stick, a stone etc.
2. In the next stage they began to make the weapons sharpen with the help of another stone , and lastly
3. After the discovery fire and metal they began to construct metal weapons replacing the weapons made up of stones.
The society too began to grow from its stage commune to the stage of small groups called as "totem" consisting of five to six members.  
A totem is a being, object, or symbol representing an animal or plant that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, clan, group, lineage, or tribe, reminding them of their ancestry (or mythic past). In kinship and descent, if the apical ancestor of a clan is nonhuman, it is called a totem. Normally this belief is accompanied by a totemic myth.
Although the term is of Ojibwe origin in North America, totemistic beliefs are not limited to Native Americans and Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Similar totem-like beliefs have been historically present in societies throughout much of the world, including Africa, Arabia, Asia, Australia, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and the Arctic polar region.

In modern times, some single individuals, not otherwise involved in the practice of a tribal religion, have chosen to adopt a personal spirit animal helper, which has special meaning to them, and may refer to this as a totem. This non-traditional usage of the term is prevalent in the New Age movement and the mythopoetic men's movement.
Five or six totems formed a tribe. In eighteenth century these totems societies were visible in North America. Each totem had its own name and logo of the name of a beast which they engraved on their weapons and the place of their habitation. During their going out for hunting they selected their leaders.the senior citizens were engaged in sharpening the weapons and made the young trained in hunting. The senior citizens of each tribe formed a council. But they did not have any rights on the area of hunting or on weapons. Though they received the lion share of the hunts.
The marriage in such a society of totems was under control. The marriage between the two were free and open subject to divorce if needed. A male could marry any number of females and vice verso, a female could marry any number of males. Ofcourse, the marriage should take place in two different totems.
When the people became confined to a particular place due to inclement weather they began fishing in a pond or a river and thus a categorical change of the products and the productive forces took place. The primitive men became fishermen instead of hunters. They began thinking in a particular place and construct their own houses for dwelling. They began agricultural work and maintain livestock. Thus they began to keep domestic animals and used to make stores for preserving their materials etc.
After getting their habitation fixed to a particular place, they got their family bondage more firm.
The male member after their marriage used to live in the family of the female. The society was matriarchal.
Agriculture was first adopted by the females. The the leader of a society was elected from the male members which could not take place without the consent of the females.
Even at the middle of the nineteenth century Morgan, a famous anthropologists, observed the a matriarchal society in America among the Yorkers at the middle of the nineteenth century.
Thus they started business between two neighboring tribes.But in such a society production and distribution was equal and the property belonged to the community.