| Abstrakt: |
The article discusses the wolf control policies of rural societies in the Haute-Provence region in France from the 17th to the 18th centuries. The article describes organized hunts by the provincial administration using local farmers to eradicate the over-abundant wolf population, the bounties associated with wolf-hunts and their effect on the local economies, and the socio-economic structures relating to the interaction between wolves and humans. Other subjects under discussion include hunting licenses and grants to wolf hunters, the relation between agricultural farm space and the wild, and the payments of land or cash made to wolf-hunters. |
