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This volume addresses current concerns about the climate and environmental sustainability by exploring one of the key drivers of contemporary environmental problems: the role of status competition in generating what we consume, and what we throw away, to the detriment of the planet. Across time and space, humans have pursued social status in many different ways - through ritual purity, singing or dancing, child-bearing, bodily deformation, even headhunting. In many of the world's most consumptive societies, however, consumption has become closely tied to how individuals build and communicate status. Given this tight link, people will be reluctant to reduce consumption levels - and environmental impact -- and forego their ability to communicate or improve their social standing. Drawing on cross-cultural and archaeological evidence, this book asks how a stronger understanding of the links between status and consumption across time, space, and culture might bend the curve towards a more sustainable future.

Introduction: Donald F. Tuzin, An Anthropologist's Anthropologist /David Lipset and Paul Roscoe --Section One:History, Masculinity and Melanesia.The Abelam 'Invasion' and the Rise of Ilahita Revisited /Paul Roscoe --The String Bag of the Tambaran: The fragile loops of concealing and revealing in Abelam culture /Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin --'Skirts-Money-Masks', and Other Chains of Masculine Signification in Post-Colonial Papua New Guinea /David Lipset --Men, Modernity and Melanesia /Bruce M. Knauft --Section Two:Culture, the Agent and Tuzin's Methodological Individualism.Signs and Wonders: The uncanny verum and the anthropological illusion /Kevin Birth --Comparison, Individualism and 'Interactionalism' in the Work of Donald F. Tuzin /Don Gardner --Stories from Childhood: Windows on experience or cultural meta-narratives? Evidence from Papua New Guinea /Stephen C. Leavitt --On Messianic Promise Joel Robbins --Section Three:Comparativism, Psychoanalysis and the Subject.Klein in Bali and Ilahita: A reflection on cultural fantasy and the deep unconscious /Michele Stephen --Hierarchy and Equality in Fijian Kindergartens /Karen J. Brison --The Torments of Initiation and the Question of Resistance /Thomas A. Gregor --Talking About Sex: On the relationship between discourse, secrecy and sexual subjectivity in Melanesia /Gilbert Herdt --Section Four:Style.Courtesy and Method in Ethnography /Alexander H. Bolyanatz --The Anthropologist's Voice: Margaret Mead and Donald Tuzin /Diane Losche.