domains: kinship, politics, economics, and religion (some additionally place education and law at this level). Each of these domains is usually composed of several institutions. Once these domains take on concrete or specific form they are identifiable as institutions; just as there is no such thing as “fruit” (an abstraction) apart from apples, oranges, pears, “kinship” does not exist apart from marriages and divorces, parent-children relationships, and *inheritance practices. These domains are