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
- Part III Continuity and Discontinuity
- Part IV Bending the Curve
- 10 The Higher Monkey Climb
- 11 Ecological Routes to Social Status and Urban Inclusion
- 12 Making the Market Work
- 13 Conclusion
- Index
- References
12 - Making the Market Work
Socially Embedded Economies, the Climate, and Consumption
from Part IV - Bending the Curve
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
- Part III Continuity and Discontinuity
- Part IV Bending the Curve
- 10 The Higher Monkey Climb
- 11 Ecological Routes to Social Status and Urban Inclusion
- 12 Making the Market Work
- 13 Conclusion
- Index
- References
Summary
Drawing on a series of ethnographic cases, Isenhour suggests that contemporary links between status and consumption are rooted in a Western conceptualization of the economy as a separate realm, governed by rules independent of social priorities and normative structures. She argues that our efforts to “bend the curve” toward more sustainable forms depend on reimagining economic systems as a means toward the fulfillment of social priorities.
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- Consumption, Status, and SustainabilityEcological and Anthropological Perspectives, pp. 296 - 323Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021