Looking toward the future, the Coda invites readers to consider research strategies that draw on the book’s conceptual and theoretical arguments. The researcher might start from a phenomenon understood as a centerpiece, working outward from it to new sites; similarly, the researcher might start from a semiotic contrast and axis, and track their various transformations. Specific issues worth developing further include: how boundaries are lively and creative, rather than limiting; how social organizations and institutions are created through the processes outlined in the book; and how narratives that posit essences are socially situated and have social and cognitive effects.