Research Catalog

Title

The culture of hunting in Canada / edited by Jean L. Manore and Dale G. Miner.

Publication

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Manore, Jean, 1960-
• Miner, Dale G.

Description

viii, 276 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

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.

Subject

• Hunting > Canada
• Hunting > Canada > History
• Hunting > Social aspects > Canada
• Chasse > Canada
• Chasse > Canada > Histoire
• Chasse > Aspect social > Canada

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 0774812931
• 9780774812931

OCLC

• 70507029
• SCSB-11238674

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library