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Excerpt from Revue d'Ethnographie Et des Traditions Populaires, Vol. 2: 1er Trimestre 1921
Cette alliance solennelle entre deux ou un plus grand nom bre d'individus de sexes, castes et races differents, a pour but essentiel de solidariser les interets, de fondre en commun les ressources et les biens, afin de mettre les contractants en meilleur etat de defense contre les rapines, violences et abus qui sont, dans les societes primitives, la facon sous laquelle se manifestent si souvent le droit et l'autorite. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
