George W Wenzel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3606496 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George W Wenzel |
| GIVEN NAMES | George W |
| FAMILY NAME | Wenzel |
| SIGNATURE | WENZEL G W |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 316 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Recent Change in Inuit Summer Residence Patterning at Clyde River, East Baffin Island
This chapter examines the dynamics of the changes among the Inuit of Clyde River, East Baffin Island, Canada. It is concerned with two key aspects of Inuit traditional culture in the Clyde River region of Eastern Baffin Island and with the conditions that are operating to weaken them The first is the dispersed summer settlement-subsistence pattern still followed by East Baffin Inuit. Hudson&s;s Bay Company archival sources and Clyde informants in…
Inuit, Oblate Missionaries, and Grey Nuns in the Keewatin (1865–1965), by Frédéric B. Laugrand and Jarich G. Oosten
William B. Kemp (1936 – 2020)
of Geography's developing Human Ecology and Northern Cultural programs, bringing with him a special focus on the Indigenous cultures of Canada's Arctic and Subarctic
Inuit Worldviews
Canadian Inuit subsistence
From the advent of the fur trade in the Canadian Arctic to the present, it has been repeatedly predicted that the cumulative effect of Euro-Canadian and, more recently, globalised sociocultural and economic pressures would transform the traditional Inuit economy from a system of socially instituted and organised cooperative food production into one in which labour is individualised and commodified. Instead, contemporary Nunavummiut subsistence cu…
Wild Resources, Harvest Data and Food Security in Nunavut’s Qikiqtaaluk Region
The security of the Inuit food system is the focus of extreme concern in Nunavut today. Despite this concern, little detailed analysis of the system’s traditional resource component has been done, primarily for lack of comprehensive recent information on harvesting. An exception is the harvest surveys carried out by the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board (NWMB) from 1996 to 2001. This comprehensive survey provides potentially important, albeit tem…
Hunters, Predators and Prey
The Meaning of Ice
Inuit and modern hunter-gatherer subsistence
Some two decades ago, Asen Balikci (1989) and David Riches (1990) questioned whether research on Inuit, despite production of a voluminous literature, had made any contribution to theoretical issues in anthropology. On their heels, Burch (1994) asked very much the same about Hunter-Gatherer Studies. The thesis of the present paper is that research on Inuit economy has, in fact, contributed importantly to a rethinking of the shape and content of s…
Inuit Subsistence, Social Economy and Food Security in Clyde River, Nunavut
This paper examines the flow of money and country food resources within an Inuit extended family (ilagiit) in Clyde River, Nunavut, to understand the effects of a mixed wage-income and hunting economy on customary resource sharing and food security. Over a 12-week period in 2009, data were gathered through participant observation and bi-weekly recall interviews with 10 ilagiit households in the community. The findings are compared to data on shar…
Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination, by Julie Cruikshank
"The Time of the Most Polar Bears"
Since the 1990s, Inuit traditional knowledge (Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit) has taken on a substantial role in polar bear management in the Canadian territory of Nunavut through its direct use in quota-setting procedures. A co-management conflict has arisen from an increase of hunting quotas in January 2005 for Inuit living in the Baffin Bay and Western Hudson Bay polar bear population areas. The quotas were based on Inuit observations and their concl…
The Nature and Significance of Polar Bear Conservation Hunting in the Canadian Arctic
The history and current status of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) conservation hunting in the Canadian Arctic, where trophy hunts by non-local hunters have steadily increased in number over the past three decades, have been influenced by local and international factors. Although polar bear hides taken in the subsistence hunt have commercial value, revenues from nonresident trophy hunting provide a much greater economic return to the Inuit. Research …
Inuit settlement in the Clyde area during "contact-exploration" times (ca. 1820-1895)
Boas, in his classic The Central Eskimo (1888), strongly implied that at the time of his most northerly journey the Baffin Island coast between northern Home Bay and Eclipse Sound, what is today the Clyde River area, was at most only lightly utilised by Inuit. Ethnohistorical inquiry about Inuit settlement in the area prior to a European presence was frustrated by a lack of temporal referencing for much of the information received from Clyde elde…
SANDLOS, John, 2007 Hunters at the Margin
SANDLOS, John, 2007 Hunters at the Margin: Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories, Vancouver, UBC Press, 244 pages.. Un article de la revue Études/Inuit/Studies (Franz Boas et les Inuit) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Clyde Inuit Settlement and Community
Presently, the terms "settlement" and "community" are used virtually interchangeably as identifying referents for contemporary Inuit residential places, especially those that are the result of past Euro-Canadian resettlement policy. This paper revisits Chang's (1961) conceptualization of these terms in which "settlement" expresses spatial, geographic and, to a degree, temporal provenience, while "community" is conceived of as having strict social…
Narwhal hunting by Pond Inlet Inuit
The harvesting of narwhals by Baffin Island Inuit represents an important relationship in terms of the continuous utilization of an indigenous marine resource. However, research on Inuit hunting with respect to narwhals has been mainly confined to harvest counts despite the major role narwhals play in the local northern Baffin subsistence system. The present research examines Pond Inlet Inuit foraging behaviour for narwhals in the spring floe-edg…
From TEK to IQ
From ethnographies of hunting to sophisticated harvesting and ecological research, human-animal interaction has been a long-standing primary focus of research on Canadian Inuit. The methodological and analytical formulations (principally from within wildlife management, ecological and economic anthropology, and evolutionary biology) that now frame much contemporary work in this area of study and influence northern conservation and management poli…
Arctic Migrants/Arctic Villagers
Sacred Hunt
Franz Boas among the Inuit of Baffin Island 1883–1884
Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Inuit
The intimate knowledge that Inuit possess about the environment has figured prominently in North American Arctic research since at least the mid-1960s, when adherents of Julian Steward's adaptationist perspective essentially displaced the acculturation paradigm that until then had dominated Inuit studies. While Nelson's Hunters of the Northern Ice is the prototype of integrating traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) into the cultural analysis of…
Modern Food Sharing Networks and Community Integration in the Central Canadian Arctic
From June 1992 to July 1993, research on wildlife harvesting and subsistence was conducted among a sample of householders in the Inuit community of Holman. In an earlier paper, the authors examined the involvement of younger Inuit in subsistence hunting, noting that despite the sweeping political, social, and economic changes that have been experienced in Holman and across the Canadian North, hunting remained an important sociocultural and econom…
Inuit, Whalers and Cultural Persistence
The Health Consequences of 'Modernization
Why Hunter-Gatherers Work
"Beyond "The Original Affluent Society
From TEK to IQ
From ethnographies of hunting to sophisticated harvesting and ecological research, human-animal interaction has been a long-standing primary focus of research on Canadian Inuit. The methodological and analytical formulations (principally from within wildlife management, ecological and economic anthropology, and evolutionary biology) that now frame much contemporary work in this area of study and influence northern conservation and management poli…
Inuit Sex-Ratio Variation
Disease and the Development of Inuit Culture [and Comments and Reply]
Inuit and modern hunter-gatherer subsistence
Some two decades ago, Asen Balikci (1989) and David Riches (1990) questioned whether research on Inuit, despite production of a voluminous literature, had made any contribution to theoretical issues in anthropology. On their heels, Burch (1994) asked very much the same about Hunter-Gatherer Studies. The thesis of the present paper is that research on Inuit economy has, in fact, contributed importantly to a rethinking of the shape and content of s…
Clyde Inuit Settlement and Community
Presently, the terms "settlement" and "community" are used virtually interchangeably as identifying referents for contemporary Inuit residential places, especially those that are the result of past Euro-Canadian resettlement policy. This paper revisits Chang's (1961) conceptualization of these terms in which "settlement" expresses spatial, geographic and, to a degree, temporal provenience, while "community" is conceived of as having strict social…
Linking tourism and art in Canada's eastern Arctic
The Inuit of Canada's eastern Arctic are increasingly turning to tourism as a source of much-needed income and employment. The government of the Northwest Territories, in conjunction with local communities, is attempting to develop a ‘sustainable’ form of tourism in the region, with an emphasis on maximizing local economic linkages while minimizing negative socio-cultural and environmental impacts. One key strategy for increasing the ‘downstream’…
I Was Once Independent
The Harp-seal Controversy and the Inuit Economy
The writer points out that Inuit communities depend more on the ringed seal than on the harp seal in economic terms. The ringed seal is a primary food resource and the sale of the skins of ringed seals provide a significant portion of the cash income of the Inuit. The public protests against the killing of the baby harp seals has also affected the hunting of ringed seals. While the price for harp seal skins has remained fairly stable, the demand …
Inuit and Polar Bears
The relationship between Inuit and polar bear (Ursus maritimus Phipps) is examined. The emphasis is placed on cultural aspects of Inuit polar bear hunting. A single hunt near Resolute Bay, N.W.T., is described and comparisons are made to Inuit polar bear hunting behaviour in the Clyde River area of Baffin Island.Key words: hunting, Inuit culture, polar bear, Resolute Bay
Sons and Seals
Clyde Inuit Adaptation and Ecology
Eskimo Capitalists
Applied Anthropology
Resource Managers
Native Harvest Surveys and Statistics
Native harvest statistics are counts, or estimates, of the number of animals by category taken by a specific group of native people during a specific time period. These statistics are significant for basic research in the social and biological sciences, for public policy and for the resolution of environmental conflicts in the North. This paper reviews and assesses two common sources of native harvest data - administrative and monitoring records,…
I Was Once Independent
Native People, Native Lands
Animal rights, human rights
This study of the controversy surrounding the hunting of seals in the Canadian Arctic concentrates on the Inuit of Clyde River, Baffin Island, and traces the evolution of the traditional subsistence economy and social structure to the present cash economy, and the effects of animal rights movements on the Inuit culture. Extensive bibliography, maps and glossary of Inuit sealing terms.
Animal Rights, Human Rights
This book is both a careful academic study and a disturbing comment on how environmental activity may oppress a whole society, which raises serious questions about the motives and methods of the animal rights' movement in a much wider context than the case here studied.
Global Warming, the Arctic and Inuit
The Animal Rights Crusade
"Beyond "The Original Affluent Society
Animal Rights, Human Rights
Aboriginal Peoples and Politics
Why Hunter-Gatherers Work
Davidee Piungnituq (1929-1993)
Piungnituq was quintessential spirit of inummariit, recognized as a hunter and provider, leader of his extended family after death of his father, deeply religious and, above all, a loving spouse and parent. Throughout his life he studied animals and land that he and his family depended upon, always instructing his sons and daughters by example. Each day of hunting ended with all members of Aqviqtiuq community gathering in his qangmaq to share in …
Inuit Sex-Ratio Variation
Disease and the Development of Inuit Culture [and Comments and Reply]
The Best Part of Life
This paper examines the economic adaptations and subsistence hunting involvement of households between the ages of 20 and 35 in the Copper Inuit community of Holman. Social, economic, and political changes throughout the Canadian Arctic have made it impossible for young adults to pursue the same mixed economic strategies as previous generations. A general decrease in subsistence hunting involvement is characteristic of the younger generation. Nev…
Linking tourism and art in Canada's eastern Arctic
The Inuit of Canada's eastern Arctic are increasingly turning to tourism as a source of much-needed income and employment. The government of the Northwest Territories, in conjunction with local communities, is attempting to develop a ‘sustainable’ form of tourism in the region, with an emphasis on maximizing local economic linkages while minimizing negative socio-cultural and environmental impacts. One key strategy for increasing the ‘downstream’…
Richard Guy Condon (1952-1995)
On 7 September 1995, Rick Condon disappeared and is presumed to have drowned while conducting fieldwork in Chukotka. He, three colleagues, and five Siberian Yup'ik Eskimos from Sireniki were lost while traveling by small skin boat along Bering Strait coast, between Sireniki and Provideniya in Russian Far East. ... True to arctic tradition, he had broad interests in northern peoples. His principal focus was Inuit adolescent development under condi…
Inuit, Whalers and Cultural Persistence
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