Consumption, Status, and Sustainability: Ecological and Anthropological Perspectives

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Edited by Paul Roscoe, University of Maine, Cindy Isenhour, University of Maine

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: July 2021
Print publication year:: 2021
Online ISBN:: 9781108874441
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108874441

Subjects:: Social and Cultural Anthropology, Archaeology: General Interest, Archaeology, Anthropology, Earth and Environmental Science: General Interest
Series:: New Directions in Sustainability and Society

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This volume addresses current concerns about the climate and environmental sustainability by exploring one of the key drivers of contemporary environmental problems: the role of status competition in generating what we consume, and what we throw away, to the detriment of the planet. Across time and space, humans have pursued social status in many different ways - through ritual purity, singing or dancing, child-bearing, bodily deformation, even headhunting. In many of the world's most consumptive societies, however, consumption has become closely tied to how individuals build and communicate status. Given this tight link, people will be reluctant to reduce consumption levels – and environmental impact -- and forego their ability to communicate or improve their social standing. Drawing on cross-cultural and archaeological evidence, this book asks how a stronger understanding of the links between status and consumption across time, space, and culture might bend the curve towards a more sustainable future.

‘A strongly diachronic collection, the pieces within this book form a comprehensive examination of status and consumption. Suitable for those conducting research in the fields of anthropology, sociology, geography, archaeology, or any environmentally oriented social science ... Recommended.’

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Consumption, Status, and Sustainability
pp i-i

New Directions In Sustainability And Society - Series page
pp ii-ii

Consumption, Status, and Sustainability - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Figures
pp vii-vii

Tables
pp viii-viii

Contributors
pp ix-x

Preface
pp xi-xii

1 - Standing Out, Fitting In, and the Consumption of the World
pp 1-30

Part I - Status Competition and Hierarchy in Human Societies
pp 31-84

2 - “Status” Pursuits in Prehistory, and the Condition We Are In
pp 33-58

3 - Conflict Management, Status Competition, and Consumption in New Guinea, Medieval England, and Contemporary Britain
pp 59-84

Part II - Variability in Status Consumption
pp 85-144

4 - Status Competition in the Ancient Past?
pp 87-113

5 - Leadership, the Funding of Power, and Sustainability in the Prehispanic Mesoamerican World
pp 114-144

Part III - Continuity and Discontinuity
pp 145-246

6 - The Never-Ending Feast Redux
pp 147-170

7 - The Status of Archaeological Knowledge in the Study of Status
pp 171-192

8 - Signs of Power and the Power of Signs
pp 193-221

9 - Status, Consumption, and Intersectionality in Sustainability Research
pp 222-246

Part IV - Bending the Curve
pp 247-341

10 - The Higher Monkey Climb
pp 249-271

11 - Ecological Routes to Social Status and Urban Inclusion
pp 272-295

12 - Making the Market Work
pp 296-323

13 - Conclusion
pp 324-341

Index
pp 342-350

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