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6 - The Never-Ending Feast Redux

Food, Status Competition, and the Anthropology of Overconsumption

from Part III - Continuity and Discontinuity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2021

By
Kaori O’connor
Edited by
Paul Roscoe  and
Cindy Isenhour
Paul Roscoe
Affiliation:
University of Maine
Cindy Isenhour
Affiliation:
University of Maine
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Summary

Using feasting as a lens through which to view consumption, competition, and status, this chapter considers how “equality” can be destructive of collective values and sustainability.

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Feaststatusconsumptionequalityhierarchy
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Consumption, Status, and Sustainability
Ecological and Anthropological Perspectives
 , pp. 147 - 170
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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