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> one-hundred-and-something pages. It is also worth pointing out (given
> Tom's earlier post) that Moore is heavily influenced by Mary Douglas's
> 'Purity and Danger'.

Indeed, he said as much in a posting to Mediev-L a few years back.  Might 
another direction for this question then be how anthropological approaches 
might have moved on since Douglas wrote _Purity and Danger_ (despite its 
reissue in pb.) or is that the point of John's message?

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Dave Postles
Dept of English Local History, University of Leicester
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