> 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? -- Dave Postles Dept of English Local History, University of Leicester [log in to unmask] http://www.le.ac.uk/elh/pot/intro.html (under construction!) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%