Part one. Bachelorhood and the peasant condition ; The system of matrimonial exchanges in traditional peasant society ; Internal contradictions and anomy ; The opposition between the bourg and the hameaux -- The peasant and his body -- Part two. Matrimonial strategies in the system of reproduction strategies -- Part three. Reproduction forbidden: the symbolic dimension of economic domination ; Addenda and corrigenda ; 'from the closed world to the infinite universe' ; The unification of the matrimonial market ; 'Sound opinions of the people'

1. Single people -- France -- Bearn
2. Marriage -- France -- Beaarn
3. Sociology
4. Rural -- France -- Bearn
5. Bearn (France) -- Rural conditions