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11%OFFGeorge Wenzel - Animal Rights, Human Rights: Ecology, Economy, and Ideology in the Canadian Arctic - 9780802068903 - V9780802068903
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Animal Rights, Human Rights: Ecology, Economy, and Ideology in the Canadian Arctic

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Description for Animal Rights, Human Rights: Ecology, Economy, and Ideology in the Canadian Arctic paperback. 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. Num Pages: 206 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.

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 ... Read more

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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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
Number of Pages
206
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802068903
SKU
V9780802068903
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About George Wenzel
George Wenzel is an anthropologist and geographer who teaches at McGill University, Canada.

Reviews for Animal Rights, Human Rights: Ecology, Economy, and Ideology in the Canadian Arctic
'If Inuit have the right to cultural survival - the only alternative to total assimilation into the "southern" Canadian mainstream, then Animal Rights, Human Rights is a vitally important book. In an era when we, as a country, are trying hard to recognize native rights and distinctiveness, Canadian should acknowledge the impact of the anti-sealing campaign. This ... Read more

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