ABSTRACT
As is highlighted in and by all the chapters in this book, the fuzzy concepts of peripherality and marginality carry intricate burdens of complex multidimensional appearances. Not only that, the way they appear, how they are recognised, described and experienced is in a constant flux. Time, context and the observer continuously present different pictures of the concepts when in active, functional utilisation. What is possibly a constant is that the way to approach a confirmation of the concept has to start with an indication of the relative position of the present in comparison with other times, places, actors/observers, earlier confirmations and opposing definitions.
