In Mexico many towns and municipalities are managed by a centuries old "usos y costumbres" or customs and traditions system that govern the population and help keep towns functioning as they have for decades and even centuries, especially in places where state and federal presence is almost non-existent.
As if in the "tradition-system" perspective or tradition imagined as an organic cultural mix of various layers (but greatly overlapping within the same trajectory of meaning) the overall configurations had greater value than the details collected on Superintendency catalogue forms, and managed to focus more on the spirit of an age, its deep codes.
This tradition and system of the palabrero is so strong that in 2010 it was declared as Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO.
Today, as we enter a shiny new decade, we should embrace a cozy and decidedly pre-modern tradition: the system of sovereign states that has served us well since the 17th century.
In most places, and also in the old tradition, each system remains separated.
With regards to measures related to the cultural and tradition belief system of male initiation and circumcision, beliefs about male circumcision and STI protection were positively associated with consistent condom use.
Newness was a defense against tradition: new systems of agreements between notes, new ways of putting pieces together, new ways to avoid the uses of the past.
Now include all the real-time components of this, one thing we've learned from tradition ad systems, the real-time signal is really important.
An alternative, hierarchical framework in the tradition of systems thinking, capable of analysing the complex relations associated with rural resource use, provides appropriate emphasis to the economic links between goals at different levels within the system, and appears to have some heuristic value.
But basically it's an Italian village [with] all these little fiefdoms... It's a very sclerotic, tradition-bound system that barely qualifies as a system.
