Making Space for Traditions
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چکیده
A tradition is a behavioral practice that is shared among members of a group; is performed repeatedly over a period of time (that is, it is enduring); and depends to a measurable degree on social contributions to individual learning for its appearance in new practitioners (for elaboration see Fragaszy and Perry7). I will consider the implications of this definition for how we can identify traditions and how we should study them. At this point, I would like merely to point out that this definition does not address whether a behavior is unique to a group or varies across groups. Social contribution to the acquisition of the behavior by new practitioners is a requirement of a tradition; whereas variation of that behavior across groups is not.
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