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

Sustainable Consumption in a Status-Conscious World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2021

By
Paul Roscoe  and
Cindy Isenhour
Edited by
Paul Roscoe  and
Cindy Isenhour
Paul Roscoe
Affiliation:
University of Maine
Cindy Isenhour
Affiliation:
University of Maine
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Summary

Status consumption is a major threat to environmental sustainability. In this volume, anthropologists and archaeologists explore the implications of status consumption for environmental sustainability across time and space as well as how the current destructive arc might be bent.

Keywords

Consumptionclimate changeenvironmental damageenvironmental sustainabilityinequalitystatus competition
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Consumption, Status, and Sustainability
Ecological and Anthropological Perspectives
 , pp. 1 - 30
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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