Ethos and Identity asks the ever-puling question: What is ethnicity and how is it to be explained? In a new introduction to this work, Athena Leossi describes Epsteins response to this challenging age-old query, and demonstrates why this classic volume is of continuing importance. Originally published thirty years ago, Ethos and Identity still fascinates the twenty-first century reader. Ethos and Identity asks the ever-puling question: What is ethnicity and how is it to be explained? In a new introduction to this work, Athena Leossi describes Epsteins response to this challenging age-old query, and demonstrates why this classic volume is of continuing importance.