Contrary to Smger’s contentlon that the features of depressive dtsorders do not exhlblt slgmficant cross-cultural differences the author uses material from field research m Tatwan and data from recent anthropologlcal and chrucal mvesttgatlons to support the opposite view that such differences extst and are a function of the cultural shaping of normattve and devtant behavior Somatlzatlon amongst...

In this work, we are exploring mechanisms that may contribute to cultural diversity and that rely on our everyday understanding of culture as a set of attitudes, behaviors, tools, ways of thinking etc., some of which are not directly exposed to the outside. We are using as a starting point an extended Axelrod model that defines a Moore neighborhood and generally heterogeneous sets of cultural f...

The purpose of this paper is to build a digital archive database for Taiwanese people to learn Taiwanese culture through the internet and elearning environment. This study will be completed in three steps. Firstly, the paper is to explore the meaning of cultural objects and to extract the cultural features from Taiwanese culture; especially, Taiwan ordinary garment cultures. Then, a protocol of...