The last week of August, when the French traditionally return from their summer holidays and prepare to go back to work, is known as la rentrée (the return).
Some Japanese mothers traditionally return to their parents' home before delivery and stay there for one month after childbirth, suggesting that changes in family and social life have not yet affected their partners at one month after childbirth.
Perhaps they especially stood out because they travelled in packs, but, either way, it was a stark reminder that Chinese tourists are now roaming the world in unprecedented numbers, even during the Lunar New Year holiday, when, traditionally, people return home.
Mogadishu's gold traders, traditionally women, have returned to their corner of the Hamarweyne market, some in burkas and others in headscarves.
The first week of March, when the weather improves and tourists start to return, traditionally is the beginning of one of the most lucrative seasons on Broadway.
("Ireland found riches a good substitute for its traditional culture," Christopher Caldwell noted, but now "we may be about to discover what happens when a traditionally poor country returns to poverty without its culture").
Traditionally, players would return towards the end of their careers, when the main European stage started viewing them as surplus to requirements and a final stint – usually at a club with which there was an emotional attachment – was a chance to bask in a certain sort of glory.
Traditionally, when hunters return to communities with fresh game or fish, it is distributed according to social rules or convention. 2 Meals are communal and fresh, uncooked animal-derived foods are first given out to people who are cold or hungry, then to the rest of the community and, finally, the remaining portion is shared within the household.
"After a hiatus either side of the referendum, the market in August, traditionally a quiet month, has returned to the relative levels reported for the first five months of the year," said Berkeley.
