%0 Book Section %B Food and the status quest: an interdisciplinary perspective %D 1996 %T Leveling the Hunter: Constraints on the status quest in foraging societies %A Wiessner, Polly %E Wiessner, Polly %E Schiefenhövel, Wulf %C Providence %I Berghahn Books %K Food consumption. %K Food supply. %K Food. %K Nutrition Requirements Developing countries. %K Nutritional anthropology. %L mstax GN407rstk GN407SHL %P 171-191 %Z edited by Polly Wiessner and Wulf Schiefenhövel.ill., maps ; 23 cm.Preface / Wulf Schiefenhovel -- 1. Introduction: Food, Status, Culture, and Nature / Polly Wiessner -- 2. The Ethological Bases of Status Hierarchies / Barbara Hold-Cavell -- 3. The Evolution of Nurturant Dominance / Irenaus Eibl-Eibesfeldt -- 4. Dominance Status, Food Sharing, and Reproductive Success in Chimpanzees / William C. McGrew -- 5. Food Sharing and Status in Unprovisioned Bonobos / Gottfried Hohmann and Barbara Fruth -- 6. Systems of Power: The Function and Evolution of Social Status / Karl Grammer -- 7. Feasts and Commensal Politics in the Political Economy: Food, Power, and Status in Prehistoric Europe / Michael Dietler -- 8. Feasting in Prehistoric and Traditional Societies / Brian Hayden -- 9. Food Production and Social Status as Documented in Proto-Cuneiform Texts / Peter Damerow -- 10. Leveling the Hunter: Constraints on the Status Quest in Foraging Societies / Polly Wiessner -- 11. Food and the Status Quest in Five African Cultures / Igor de Garine.12. Food, Competition, and the Status of Food in New Guinea / Pierre Lemonnier -- 13. Of Harvests and Hierarchies: Securing Staple Food and Social Position in the Trobriand Islands / Wulf Schiefenhovel and Ingrid Bell-Krannhals -- 14. Food and Household Status in Nepal / Catherine Panter-Brick -- 15. Nutritional Security and the Status Quest in Developing Countries / Rainer Gross and Gunter Dresrusse. %@ 1571818715 (acid-free pa