The maternal race is one of the socio-economic units of a primitive society.
The maternal gender is an exogamous group of blood relatives along the mother's side. This collective is distinguished by the awareness of its community, which is reflected in the generic names, totemism . It is characteristic that in this case the maternal gender is perceived as “originating from one womb”, “one bone”. It is noted that the maternal gender is present in a number of tribes and peoples located at various levels of pre-class society. These include part of the natives of Australia, Melanesians, Indians of America [1] .
In Soviet science, it was widely believed that the tribal society in its development alternately goes through two stages - the period of the mother and the period of the father. It was believed that "in the maternal gender, the industrial relations of people, as a rule, coincided with the relations between blood relatives" [2] .