Sometimes hunting can seem like business : polar bear sport hunting in Nunavut
"No animal holds as visible or signifi cant a place in Canadian Inuit culture as the polar bear (nauuk). Inuit have hunted polar bear for millennia, for spiritual-cultural reasons and to contribute to the traditional food economy. But, by the 1900s, polar bear had become an item of economic value in Inuit-European commerce, and events in mid-century would lay the groundwork for signifi cant growth of the sport-hunt that culminated with the collapse of the sealskin economy. Although nanuk retains signifi cance as a subsistence resource, it has assumed a larger role than at any time in the past because sport hunting provides a means for highly skilled hunters to obtain monies needed to engage in a range of activities important to the food economy, bringing a subsistence value several times larger than the actual income generated. The objective of this research was to provide insight into whether or how sport hunting might play a (larger) strategic role in the conservation and management of polar bear
Livre imprimé, English, 2008
CCI Press, Edmonton, 2008