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- W2500783119 abstract "Class hierarchies are held together by the ‘unproductive uses of economic surplus’ (Eyer 1984: 52). In early civilizations conspicuous consumption affirmed the power of the upper classes and served to distinguish strata amongst them. Ordinary people – supporting themselves with simple technologies, able to produce only meagre food surpluses, and allowed by rulers to keep only a small portion of those surpluses – easily appreciated the social significance of the ruling classes' being able to expend large amounts of surplus energy on non-utilitarian projects. Key examples of such undertakings were the creation of costly luxury goods and monumental architecture – cost being measured by the amount of labour required to produce them (Maisels 1999: 344). The ability of the upper classes to sponsor such production reinforced their political power in the imaginations of ordinary people, even though it was lower-class craft workers and corvée labourers who were the producers. Public displays of such production encouraged the loyalty and obedience of the lower classes (Tate 1992: 31)." @default.
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- W2500783119 title "Elite Art and Architecture" @default.
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