TY - BOOK AU - Wenzel,George W. TI - Animal rights, human rights: ecology, economy and ideology in the Canadian Arctic SN - 0802059619 (bound) AV - E99.E7 W45 1991 PY - 1991/// CY - Toronto PB - University of Toronto Press KW - Inuit KW - Hunting KW - Canada KW - Sealing KW - Cultural assimilation KW - Animal rights N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - 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 ER -