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1 online resource (viii, 276 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Jean L. Manore. pt. 1. Hunting and identity. Why I hunt / Leigh Clarke -- Learning to hunt at the age of twenty-seven: a new hunter's views on hunting / Jason E. McCutcheon -- Hunting with Dad / Robert Sopuck -- Hunting stories / Peter Kulchyski -- The empire's Eden: British hunters, travel writing, and imperialism in nineteenth-century Canada / Greg Gillespie -- Powers of liveness: reading Hornaday's Camp-fires / Mark Simpson. pt. 2. Hunting and conservation history. Views of a Swampy-Cree elder on the spiritual relationship between hunters and animals / Louis Bird and Roldand Bohr -- 'When the need for it no longer existed': declining wildlife and Native hunting rights in Ontario, 1791-1898 / David Calerley -- Contested terrains of space and place: hunting and the landscape known as Algonquin Park, 1890-1950 / Jean L. Manore -- The sinews of their lives: First Nation's access to resources in the Yukon, 1890-1950 / Kenneth Coates -- The Canadian Wildlife Service: enforcing federal wildlife regulations / J. Alexander Burnett. pt. 3. Hunting and contemporary challenges. Aboriginal peoples and their historic right to hunt: a reasonable symbiotic relationship / Bruce W. Hodgins -- Personal expression as exemplified by hunting: one man's view / Edward Reid -- Gun control in Canada / Simon Wallace -- A hunter's perspective on gun control in Canada / Dale Miner -- The activists move west: recent experiences in Manitoba / Tim Sopuck -- Fair chase: to where does it lead? / Edward Hanna. Conclusion: Learning about passions, policies, and problems / Jean L. Manore. |
| Summary |
"The essays collected here address important historical and contemporary issues regarding the culture and practice of hunting. Topics include hunting identities; conservation and its relationship to hunting; tensions between hunters and non-hunters and between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal hunting groups; hunting ethics; debates over hunting practices and regulations; animal rights; and gun control. The discussion involves consideration of the social, political, and economic context as well as class and racial tensions between sport hunters and subsistence hunters."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hunting -- Canada.
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Hunting. |
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Canada. |
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Hunting -- Canada -- History.
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History. |
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Hunting -- Social aspects -- Canada.
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Hunting -- Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Manore, Jean, 1960-
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Miner, Dale G.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Culture of hunting in Canada. Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2007 0774812931 (DLC) 2007272764 (OCoLC)70507029 |
| ISBN |
0774812931 |
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9780774812931 |
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9780774855327 (electronic book) |
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0774855320 (electronic book) |
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9780774812948 (paperback) |
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077481294X |
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