German jurist Friedrich Carl von Savigny and his historical school of jurisprudence, which was inspired by the 19th-century Romanticism, have notably promoted the origins of the German people and their distinctive ethos, or Volksgeist (“the spirit of a people”).
However, this concept of juristic evolution did not leave much space for notions such as legal transplants and the diffusion of law.
Powell is credited with coining the word “acculturation”, first using it in an 1880 report by the US Bureau of American Ethnography.
This disruption sparks an evolution where the external rule's meaning is redefined and where significant transformations within the internal context are triggered.
[1] Lasse Schuldt added that irritation is not spontaneous, but requires institutional drivers.