Animal Rights, Human Rights

Animal Rights, Human Rights

Ecology, Economy and Ideology in the Canadian Arctic

Wenzel, George (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

03/1991

224

Dura

Inglês

9780471947875

0471947873

460

An anthropological analysis of the impact of the ban on seal hunting on Inuit (Eskimo) culture and economy in arctic Canada that challenges these actions and questions the elevation of animal rights over human rights.
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.
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