Purity Lost Glenn Walters Clifford Geertz

Clifford Geertz

Part of Jacob's face had been blown off

Gabrielle Starr shows that the lyric and the novel in the eighteenth century

A traveler heading north from modern Athens must choose between the Sacred Way-- or the NATO Road

Purity Lost Glenn Walters Clifford GeertzPurity Lost investigates the porous nature of social, political, and religious boundaries prevalent in the eastern Mediterraneanfrom the Black Sea to Egyptduring the Middle Ages. In this intriguing study, Steven A. Epstein finds that people consistently defied, overlooked, or transcended restrictions designed to preserve racial and cultural purity in order to establish relationships with those different from themselves. These mixed relationshipsamong