Status Matters - Even In The Amazon

Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 19:01 in Mathematics & Economics

"Keeping up with the Joneses" is a colloquialism for developing world desire to have the same or better status in society than peers. If someone gets a new car, you get a new car. In some people, status is so important they suffer psychological distress if they lack status. But it isn't just for the middle class in Western nations, say anthropologists at U.C. Santa Barbara, who found that the same need exists among the Tsimane, an egalitarian society of forager-farmers in the Bolivian Amazon.  read more

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