Animal rights, human rights : ecology, economy and ideology in the Canadian Arctic
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
ix, 206 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
9780802059611, 9780802068903, 0802059619, 0802068901
1263604386
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