The changing imagery of the big bad wolf

摘要: The current work is part of the author’s ecosemiotic analysis norwegian/scandinavian wolf management in period 1855-2010. norway, as several other countries, controversial. For some on countryside it has come to symbolize ignorant hostility (and imperialistic tendencies) urban elites. There a wide gap between perceptions conservation side and antagonistic camp, proper role folklore — which considered by ecologists unscientific never been agreed upon. Field observations confirm that political cultural strife little basis actual ecology sheep, for instance, play marginal scandinavian diet, are currently major players popular imagery (and, ironically, policies) only. symbols have grown developed, representations wolves appear, at least part, decoupled from ecological reality. what ways our conceptions changed extermination campaigns 19th century efforts generation? To extent wolves, modern times well earlier, symbolized human traits, religious ideas etc., they represented phenomena nature? offering series examples animal involving fiction culture, myths legends I will inquire into these questions, aiming approving understanding how cultures co-evolved not only with but further rich creatures, infamous ancestors man’s best [*] carried out partaking research projects Heritage environmental spaces: comparative estonia norway (eea-eTF Grant eMP 54), dynamical Zoosemiotics Representations (eTF/esF 7790) Methods biosemiotics 6669).