Matrix: A Journal for Matricultural Studies

Matrix is a new journal in the humanities and social sciences, founded to provide an interdisciplinary forum for those who are working from the theoretical stance of matriculture as a Geertzian cultural system.

Matrix is published by the Network on Culture. Their mandate is to recognize, protect, and support intangible and material cultures, cultural heritages, and cultural environments, especially those of cultures under threat, through training, education, and research. They are a not-for-profit corporation federally incorporated in Canada since September 2017 and a charity registered with the Canadian Revenue Agency.

Matriculture refers to the cultural system that brings together all cultural aspects informing the lives of mothers, usually women, of a given society, and by extension, the lives of women. Talking about matricultural systems allows us to consider as primary the cultural context of a given society as perceived, constructed, and lived by its women.

We encourage submissions from scholars around the world who are ready to take a new look at the ways in which people - historically and currently - have organized meaningful relationships amongst themselves and with the natural environment, the myths, customs, and laws which support these relationships, and the ways in which researchers have documented and perhaps mis-labeled the matricultures they have encountered.