Animal Rights, Human Rights

George Wenzel

ISBN 10: 0802068901 / ISBN 13: 9780802068903

Published by University of Toronto Press, 1991

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pp. 206.

Seller Inventory # 2650473599

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Animal Rights, Human Rights
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802068901
• ISBN 13: 9780802068903
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

George Wenzel is an anthropologist and geographer who teaches at McGill University, Canada.