OIKOS is an interdisciplinary working group for the study of kinship and economy. The group organizes reading groups, research workshops, and public talks.
OIKOS reading groups invite scholars and students to discuss classic texts on family and economy (from Aristotle and Xenophon to Confucius and Mencius); social and political theories of domestic and economic spheres; and historical, ethnographic, and sociological case studies of how gender and kinship structure circulations of value.
OIKOS workshop participants present new research on gender, kinship, sexuality, and money. Topics include financial products as tools of mediation between households and financial industries; network marketing as corporate forms built through religious affiliations; second-world women as managers of household wealth and investors in financial services; debt and accumulation as legal forms built around joint persons, from couples to families to corporations.
To learn more, visit the OIKOS website.
