Dear Peta : what the seal means to the Jerry Cans

• Main Author: Solnoky, Mark
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: My University 2017
• Subjects: animal rights groups; ethnographic film; Inuit culture; Inuit music; selective tradition; The Jerry Cans; Nunavut; Peta; inuit
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25316/ir-82; https://viurrspace.ca/handle/10613/5096

A fundamental part of being Inuit today means being a person who hunts and for whom sealing serves as a sharing paradigm that involves family and social networks (Wenzel, 1987). This worldview conflicts with those of animal rights groups such as PETA, who consider all killing of animals morally wron...