Annotation
Although the existence of marginal groups is ethnographically evident in various societies all over the world, marginality is often mentioned in connection with establishing and expanding such kind of policy and organization of social order, where centre has weak image of its own borders. As to some authors we can perceive marginality as imaginative space, where different ways of creating meaning meet.
In this concept it is not important, how marginality is far from the centre (Tsing). Some concepts of marginality investigate potential of peripheral for maintaining of social order (Foucault).
In other concept marginality in its ideal form is understood as a space of revolt against hegemony (Scott). This course should alllow to analyze and compare different concepts of marginality.
It should be rather research seminar, where the content is dependent on former discussion. Theoretical grasp of marginality will be accompanied by investigation of concrete ethnographical examples.
In this way we will reach definition of anthropology of marginality as an area, which is based on permanent tendency to pay attention to resistence, agency and dailiness.