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.
- ISBN10 1852930306
- ISBN13 9781852930301
- Publish Date 18 April 1991 (first published 1 January 1991)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 November 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint John Wiley & Sons Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English