domain

is like kinship constantly borrowing from other domains, decontextualizing and recontextualizing items which are subject to the 'domaining effects' of the particular domain in which they are located.

Interactive, domains constantly borrow from each other, decontextualising and recontextualising items... these are subject to the 'domaining effects' of the particular domain in which they are located. Domains connect and disconnect, but Strathern notes there is no master domaIn into which they all resolve (Strathern 1993: 134). An example of a domain would be kinship, which is 'governed by its own conventions and internal structure inviting ramifications' (Strathern 1993: 136).

is the manner in which sets of practices and expertise offer relatively discrete or self-contained ways of contextualizing experience.

the manner in which sets of practices and expertise offer relatively discrete or self-contained ways of contextualizing experience' (Strathern 1993: 145).

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