Depuis son établissement, dans toutes les civilisations humaines, le mariage a toujours exigé que les prétendants puissent d'abord s'y préparer sérieusement et acquérir des connaissances multiformes, afin d'assurer son fonctionnement optimal.
This volume of L vi-Strauss's writings from 1941 to 1947 bears witness to a period of his work which is often overlooked but which was the crucible for the structural anthropology that he would go on to develop in the years that followed.
