母权制理论问题自从巴霍芬提出来以后已将近一百二十年,仍然没有得到解决。许多杰出的学者,其中有摩尔根、恩格斯、麦克伦南、哈特兰和布里富特,注意到这个问题,他们主要是维护母权制理论的。二十世纪英国和美国的人类学家(拉德克利夫-布朗和弗特)曾批驳过母权制理论,认为这一概念已是奄奄一息,只是作为这门学科历史上的一种奇谈怪论而引人注意。社会主义学者(如丹尼洛娃、克留科夫)一般都承认母权制是社会发展的一个阶段,但是对这一问题也在进行新的探讨。近来,在西方随着女权运动的兴起,母权制理论 The problem of the theory of maternity has remained unresolved for almost 120 years since its introduction. Many prominent scholars, including Morgan, Engels, McLennan, Hartland and Bridget, have taken note of this problem, mainly on the theory of maternity. Twentieth-century British and American anthropologists (Radcliffe-Brown and Fute) once criticized the theory of matrilineal as the concept of dying, just as a curious argument in the history of the discipline And attract attention. Socialist scholars (such as Danilova, Klyukov) generally admit that matriarchy is a phase of social development, but new discussions are also being made on this issue. Recently, with the rise of the feminist movement in the West, the theory of matriarchy