Forest Rites : The War of the Demoiselles in Nineteenth-century France

Review
An early modernist by training…Sahlins skillfully uses cultural anthropology as well as the insights of Roger Chartier to reconstruct the War of the Demoiselles as a clash of discrete but complementary cultures, hidden from each other but coexisting, parts of a whole…Its important insights about the fluidity of culture, however, will assure it a secure place on the syllabus of nineteenth-century studies. (Kathleen Kete
Journal of Modern History)