Animal rights, human rights: ecology, economy and ideology in the Canadian Arctic
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Main Author: Wenzel, George W. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto, Ont. University of Toronto Press 2000
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Item Description:First published in North America by University of Toronto Press 1991
Includes bibliographical references and index
Traditional people in the modern world -- Animal rights, the seal protest, and Inuit -- The culture of subsistence -- Clyde Inuit and seals: ecological relations -- The Clyde Inuit economy -- Seals and snowmobiles: the modern Clyde economy -- Ideological relations and harvesting -- The seal protest as cultural conflict -- A blizzard of contradictions -- The controversy today
This study of the controversy surrounding the hunting of seals in the Canadian Arctic concentrates on the Inuit of Clyde River, Baffin Island, and traces the evolution of the traditional subsistence economy and social structure to the present cash economy, and the effects of animal rights movements on the Inuit culture. Extensive bibliography, maps and glossary of Inuit sealing terms
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 206 p., [6] p. of plates)
ISBN:0802059619
0802068901
1442670878
9780802059611
9780802068903
9781442670877

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