Abstract

Man, having practiced marriage for at least a million years, has seriously studied it for less than a hundred. Edward Westermarck’s massive three-volume The History of Human Marriage, first published in 1891, was not the first scientific study of the subject; but it is by far the best-known of the earlier writings, and the only one still given any serious attention. Westermarck was 28 years of age when his monumental work was completed—and he never married!

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