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Part I - Status Competition and Hierarchy in Human Societies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2021

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Cindy Isenhour
Paul Roscoe
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University of Maine
Cindy Isenhour
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Consumption, Status, and Sustainability
Ecological and Anthropological Perspectives
 , pp. 31 - 84
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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