# Johann Jakob Bachofen — Mutual Aid character guide

> Johann Jakob Bachofen in Mutual Aid by Peter Kropotkin.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Bachofen, ↩ Bachofen

**First appearance:** 0004-iii-mutual-aid-among-savages

## Who they are

Swiss anthropologist who theorized about matriarchy and primitive communism.

## In the story

### [Mutual Aid Among Savages](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mutual_aid_se/chapters/iii-mutual-aid-among-savages)

Bachofen is listed among the founders of the science of the embryology of human institutions, which established that the family is a late product of evolution.

### [VII: The Origin of the Family](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mutual_aid_se/chapters/vii-the-origin-of-the-family)

Cited as a foundational theorist of matrilineal descent and tribal marriage, whose monumental work is contrasted with the patriarchal family school.

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