Introduction

Abstract

The articles of the volume discuss various issues on the topic of Nature and Culture. This topic makes us speculate on the binary opposition of Nature/Culture (formulated by Claude Lévi-Strauss) and the interrelation of Nature and Culture as seen in modern societies. This opposition finds multiple implementations in many disciplines: folk ecology, environmental studies, and in folklore genres, the beliefs and customs of the calendric and family life cycles, folk religion practices, language, comparative mythology, and anthrozoology. However, Nature and Culture are not always opposed; they interrelate and complement each other.