The Invention of Nature

The Author: Thomas Bargatzky, born 1946, is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth. He has done fieldwork in Samoa (South Pacific).
Rolf Kuschel, born 1939, is Associate Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Copenhagen and has done ethnological fieldwork on Bellona Island (South Pacific) and in Nepal.

Contents: Concepts of nature in Greek religion and philosophy - The divinization of Nature in early modern thought - Attitudes toward Nature in American society - Pawnee views of Nature - Were the Crow Indians conservationists? The artificiality of Nature in Western art.