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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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George Wenzel is an anthropologist and georgpaher who teaches at McGill University, Canada.
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- Environmentalism: The View from Anthropology (Asa Monographs, 32) by Kay Milton in Front Matter, and page 84
- Reflecting on Nature: Readings in Environmental Philosophy by Lori Gruen in Front Matter, and page 299
- Green Planet Blues: Environmental Politics From Stockholm To Johannesburg, Third Edition by Ken Conca on page 118, and page 136
- Green Planet Blues: Environmental Politics from Stockholm to Johannesburg by Ken Conca on page 118, and page 136
- Medical Anthropology In Ecological Perspective: Third Edition by Ann Mcelroy on page 324, and Back Matter
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