Book contents
- Consumption, Status, and Sustainability
- New Directions In Sustainability And Society
- Consumption, Status, and Sustainability
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Standing Out, Fitting In, and the Consumption of the World
- Part I Status Competition and Hierarchy in Human Societies
- Part II Variability in Status Consumption
- 4 Status Competition in the Ancient Past?
- 5 Leadership, the Funding of Power, and Sustainability in the Prehispanic Mesoamerican World
- Part III Continuity and Discontinuity
- Part IV Bending the Curve
- Index
- References
5 - Leadership, the Funding of Power, and Sustainability in the Prehispanic Mesoamerican World
from Part II - Variability in Status Consumption
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 July 2021
- Consumption, Status, and Sustainability
- New Directions In Sustainability And Society
- Consumption, Status, and Sustainability
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Standing Out, Fitting In, and the Consumption of the World
- Part I Status Competition and Hierarchy in Human Societies
- Part II Variability in Status Consumption
- 4 Status Competition in the Ancient Past?
- 5 Leadership, the Funding of Power, and Sustainability in the Prehispanic Mesoamerican World
- Part III Continuity and Discontinuity
- Part IV Bending the Curve
- Index
- References
Summary
Across the prehispanic Mesoamerican world, governance, leadership, and the ways that power was funded varied at key cities and central places. Based on preliminary findings, the more autocratically ruled, unequal polities were less sustainable.
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- Consumption, Status, and SustainabilityEcological and Anthropological Perspectives, pp. 114 - 144Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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