Consumption, Status, and Sustainability

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.