Byzantine art fares no better: "a static, moribund tradition, from which Italian artists in the Middle Ages had to struggle to free themselves".
Where Child and Sharp condescended to folk music's creators as passive conduits of a static, immemorial tradition, John Lomax and his doubly influential son, Alan, honored them as active producers of an evolving one.
The Dreaming legacy was not a static deadweight of tradition but was forever being added to and enlivened, despite an ideology that proclaimed non-change and the need only to reproduce existing forms.
But More's conception of the church is far from being a static appeal to tradition, since he sees the Spirit as actively engaged within the church till the end of time as its founding doctrines evolve and develop (CWM 6 1, 146 47).
It is the voice moreover of the consumer, turning other realities into static and purchasable concepts ("tradition", "the art of pleasure") that can be incorporated into the sense of self.
One pervasive view of chimpanzee culture is that behavioral traditions remain static once they have been established in a group.
Borrowing from Gyekye [ 5], Nzegwu [ 6] notes the politics of customs (upon which 'indigenous' phenomena are based), contextualizing this politics while observing that "there is nothing static or stable about traditions and customs", rather, "the root of the problem lies in the way that present generations have chosen to preserve their customs or traditions" ([ 6]. p139).
This actively causes harm, including when communities react to this by holding on to static notions of "culture" and "tradition" in the face of outside challenge as a way to resist colonialism and racism.
Tradition is not static, but dynamic.
"It's progress in a Venice that is always static, always stuck in its traditions".
"It's old but it's dynamic; it's tradition that isn't static.
