The law and the economy are deeply influenced by the legal tradition or origin, which is the bundle of institutions shaping lawmaking and dispute adjudication. The two principal legal traditions, common law and civil law, have been transplanted through colonization and occupation to the vast majority of the jurisdictions in the world by a group of European countries. Here, I illustrate a novel ...

We report an experimental test of the hypothesis that contrasting traditions will persist for longer, maintaining cultural differences between otherwise similar groups, under conditions of uncertainty about payoffs from individual learning. We studied the persistence of two alternative, experimentally-introduced, task solutions in chains of human participants. In some chains, participants were ...

The article discusses the aim of polyethnic education to form students' sensitivity cultural differences.The study is identify, define and justify pedagogical possibilities ethno-cultural students in a multiethnic educational environment. As consequence understanding differences, student must first understand their own culture, only then other cultures. The peculiarity tested course that c...

Traditional cultural properties were the subject of a National Register Bulletin, Bulletin 38, that was issued by the National Park Service in 1990. In the three years since it was issued, both the Bulletin and its subject matter have been the focal points of considerable discussion and debate in the preservation community. This special issue of CRM presents several perspectives on the debate. ...

This study is an attempt to describe the terminology of Metroxylon sago among the Melanau community in Mukah, Sarawak (Malaysia). The paper is divided into three main sections: the research method, introduction to the Melanau and their language, and the description of sago terms. The research results reported here are based on data collected in a qualitative research project, featuring face to ...

In this article, we consider the development of humanistic worldview younger schoolchildren in extracurricular activities as a set basic principles: historical and cultural orientation upbringing education, which involves organization educational process based on history culture peoples living region, country; integration disciplines (mastery art unity with study songs, music, traditions, ritua...

Cognitive and neuroscience research from the past several years has shed new light on the influences that meditative traditions have on the meditation practice. Here we review new evidence that shows that types of meditation that developed out of certain traditions such as Vajrayana and Hindu Tantric lead to heightened sympathetic activation and phasic alertness, while types of meditation from ...