Archaeological sites are the liminal spaces of later mythologies.
The ancestors can be seen but not readily reached and thus their liminal quality is enhanced.
And it is more useful to define those spaces as liminal, rather than the people who move within them.
That many liminal frontier figures existed during these years, providing inspiration for the writers of popular fiction, there can be no question.
Performance was also long identified with the genuinely marginal, operating in the exemplar of the liminal space - the street.
Just as we have argued that gossip creates liminal identities for the gossipees, it is also true for the gossipers.
However, these physical practices also re-choreographed the hidden and liminal spaces to which they were restricted.
How do the supposed liminal dimensions of some material elements of the ritual relate to fire as a medium of transition?
