TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wenzel,George
TI  - Animal Rights, Human Rights: Ecology, Economy, and Ideology in the Canadian Arctic 
SN  - 9781442670877
AV  - E99.E7 W46 1991eb
U1  - 306/.089/9710719 
PY  - 2000///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Animal rights
KW  - Inuit
KW  - Cultural assimilation
KW  - Canada
KW  - Hunting
KW  - Sealing
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - 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
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