Two sides of the perimeter of the field are cut using aligned sticks to define two straight, perpendicular lines. The space thus defined is then cleared. The final field is rectangular and is thought of as having a central point. In such arguments the influence of Bourdieu is most apparent. Frameworks may be thought of as the actual events and interactions in which the schemata of the frames are brought into play.
Shamanic ritual is more complex again.
These are frameworks in which several different frames may be instantiated with various relations to one another. Such a level of detail and the sustained analysis of the data must be welcomed for all that it makes hard reading. Cynics will say that much laudable effort has been spent on a description of a few twigs without giving us a view of the forest. Focus on the minutiae of conversational interaction may not leave room for the social contexts within which that interaction occurs. Hanks is fully aware of the possibility of such criticism.