The Culture of Hunting in Canada

ISBN-13: 9780774812931 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 288 str.

Jean L. Manore; Dale G. Miner

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This book is about hunting and hunters -- a fundamental but understudied aspect of Canadian history, culture, and society. The Culture of Hunting in Canada presents a wide range of essays by practitioners as well as scholars of hunting, and from lobbyists both for and against hunters.The essays collected here highlight important events and issues -- both historic and contemporary -- regarding the culture and practice of hunting. Topics addressed include hunting identities; conservation and its relationship to hunting; tensions between hunters and non-hunters and between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal hunting groups; debates over hunting practices and regulations; animal rights; and gun control. Discussion of these topics includes consideration of their social, political, and economic contexts as well as class and racial tensions between sport hunters and subsistence hunters. It covers events from the early colonial period until the present day and from all parts of Canada.The Culture of Hunting in Canada makes an unprecedented contribution to the study of hunting in Canada and its role in our culture. It will appeal to sociologists, anthropologists, and historians of hunting culture; wildlife biologists, natural resource managers, and environmentalists; and, not least, hunters and anyone interested in the culture of hunting.