Undetermined procedures for adapting tradition-bound cultures

Because tribal people did not participate in the shaping of the technological society, they are being forced back to their ancient culture whose traditional forms are not applicable in present-day conditions. Their only source of uniqueness is the remembrance of the past. Transposing their deep wisdom, social forms and symbol system into meaningful and operable forms is closely connected with the challenge of self-sufficiency in the economic area.

1. Inadequate social innovation

1. Symbols unrelated to human experience
2. Lack of economic adaptation of indigenous systems
3. Inadequate sense of time
4. Cultural isolation
5. Conflicting symbol systems
6. Absence of rites of passage

1. Unstructured local government in small communities
2. Unadapted significance of cultural tradition
3. Tradition-bound social structures in rural areas
4. Restricted farming alternatives
5. Preservation of obsolete systems
6. Loss of cultural heritage
7. Lack of assimilation
8. Inflexible social care structures
9. Indecisive community programmes
10. Increasing unsustainability of global development
11. Inadequate education of indigenous peoples
12. Endangered cultures
13. Elimination of traditional skills
14. Dysfunctional adaptation to technological advance
15. Decision-making tradition lost
16. Continuing expectation of community decline
17. Blood vengeance

1. Static social relations inhibiting vision of the future
2. Rapidly changing cultures
3. Limited availability of learning opportunities
4. Glorification of primitive cultures
5. Delays in implementation of social change

1. Sectarianism
2. Inflexible central government
3. Historical rootlessness

1. Upholding traditions
2. Providing alternative to traditional cultural life
3. Determining procedures for adapting tradition-bound cultures

1. Undetermined
2. Unclear
3. Tradition-bound
4. Tradition