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Animal Rights, Human Rights: Ecology, Economy, and Ideology in the Canadian Arctic

Animal Rights, Human Rights: Ecology, Economy, and Ideology in the Canadian Arctic - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:George WenzelPublish date:1991-06-01Pages:206
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Toronto PressISBN-13:9780802068903ISBN-10:802068901UPC:9780802068903Book Category:Nature, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Animals, Ethnic Studies, AnthropologyBook Topic:American, Cultural & SocialSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.7408Product ID:SC3BH3J4CP

The campaign to ban seal hunting in Canada won international headlines and achieved its aims to a large extent. Most observers felt instinctively that the campaigners were "right" but little thought was given to the cataclysmic consequences the ban would have on the way of life and economy of a traditional people, the Inuit of Arctic Canada.

A distinguished anthropologist who has spent over twenty years living and working with the Inuit Community, George Wenzel provides a reasoned, in-depth, coolly written but powerful critique of this received interpretation and shows how the campaigners 'own cultural prejudices and questionable ecological imperatives brought hardship, distress and instability to an ecologically balanced traditional culture.

This book is both a careful academic study and a disturbing comment on how environmental activity may oppress a whole society, which raises serious questions about the motives and methods of the animal rights' movement in a much wider context than the case here studied.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Toronto PressISBN-13:9780802068903ISBN-10:802068901UPC:9780802068903Book Category:Nature, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Animals, Ethnic Studies, AnthropologyBook Topic:American, Cultural & SocialSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.7408Product ID:SC3BH3J4CP
Wenzel, George: - George Wenzel is an anthropologist and geographer who teaches at McGill University, Canada.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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2nd Revised Edition

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George Wenzel

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