The book contains the reprint of 34 papers which have been published by Emile Benveniste between 1930 and 1968. These articles were published in journals, felicitation volumes and conference proceedings, about linguistics, religions and cultures. They concern languages and cultures of the Indo-Iranian, and especially Iranian area, as well of the whole Indo-European domain. In addition, some articles are about the French language as well as about American Indian languages. Several articles are of anthropological and philosophical import. The book is provided with indices of concepts, works, authors and words.