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A 5 page research paper: The current era is one that is greatly concerned with "political correctness." Within the framework, interests vie for attention. While it is acknowledged that indigenous people should have a political voice and respect for their customs and culture, their interests vie with those of animal rights movements, environmental movements, and developmental concerns. Anthropologist Jens Dahl points out that the designations, such as industrialized or commercial fishing, or traditional hunting or subsistence-based fishing and hunting, are arbitrary distinctions that are "dictated and formulated by European states and Animal Rights Movements" (Dahl 24). This examination of this topic explores why Dahl distinguishes between traditional hunting activities and subsistence and the relevance of this distinction to Eskimo societies. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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have a political voice and respect for their customs and culture, their interests vie with those of animal rights movements, environmental movements, and developmental concerns. Anthropologist Jens Dahl points out
that the designations, such as industrialized or commercial fishing, or traditional hunting or subsistence-based fishing and hunting, are arbitrary distinctions that are "dictated and formulated by European states and Animal
Rights Movements" (Dahl 24). The following examination of this topic explores why Dahl distinguishes between traditional hunting activities and subsistence and the relevance of this distinction to Eskimo societies.
Dahl points out that there are numerous fallacious assumptions in regards to traditional hunting activities and subsistence. One of these false assumptions is that these activities are incompatible with development
(Dahl 24). This assumption is based on the idea that these activities are "outside the imaginary sphere of development and modernization" (Dahl 24). This misconception is specifically employed to
the detriment of Inuit societies in regards to campaigns against "seal hunting, fur trapping, and the like" are accompanied by demands made by non-Inuit social forces (Dahl 24-25). These forces
only tolerate subsistence activities and then only when they are perceived as being pursued by "traditional" means (Dahl 25). The difference between subsistence hunting and commercial harvesting is "often arbitrary
and fictitious" (Dahl 25). For one thing, hunting economics in Greenland are usually household oriented, rather than oriented toward market forces and many households use this activity to generate
money necessary to sustain subsistence hunting and vice versa (Dahl 25). Dahl goes on to explain the basic parameters governing Home Rule in Greenland as it is practiced today,
which includes discussion of rules governing hunting and fishing. In so doing, he points out that the word "subsistence," which includes hunting, has "different meaning for different groups of people"
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