Consumption, Status, and Sustainability: Ecological and Anthropological Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781108836043 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 300 str.

Paul Roscoe; Cynthia Isenhour

Opis

Focuses information from across time and culture on the relationships among status competition, consumption, and planetary sustainability.

Recenzje

'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.' J. Asselin, Choice Connect

Spis treści

Preface; Introduction; 1. Standing out, fitting in, and the consumption of the world: sustainable consumption in a status-conscious world Paul Roscoe and Cindy Isenhour; Part I. Status Competition and Hierarchy in Human Societies: 2. 'Status' pursuits in the past, and the condition we are in Brian Hayden; 3. Conflict management, status competition and consumption Paul Roscoe; Part II. Variability in Status Consumption: 4. Status competition in the ancient past? Tracing antecedence in the Mimbres region of the US southwest Will G. Russell and Michelle Hegmon; 5. Leadership, the funding of power, and sustainability in the Prehispanic Mesoamerican world Gary M. Feinman; Part III. Continuity and Discontinuity: 6. The never-ending feast redux: food, status competition, and the anthropology of overconsumption Kaori O'Connor; 7. The status of archaeological knowledge in the study of status: notes on classical Greece Staša Babić; 8. Signs of power and the power of signs: semiotics, materiality, and the political economy of status and consumption Alf Hornborg; 9. Status, consumption, and intersectionality in sustainability research Sophorntavy Vorng; Part IV. Bending the Curve: 10. The higher monkey climb: shame as a tool in seeking a sustainable world Richard Wilk; 11. Ecological routes to social status and urban inclusion: theorizing citizenship through waste work Manisha Anantharaman; 12. Making the market work: socially embedded economies, the climate, and consumption Cindy Isenhour; 13. Conclusion: changes in status, consumption and sustainability Cindy Isenhour and Paul Roscoe.