Recycling Indian clothing: global contexts of reuse and value
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1. Verfasser: Norris, Lucy (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bloomington Indiana University Press ©2010
Schriftenreihe:Tracking globalization
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Recycling Indian clothing: the global context -- Fieldwork contexts -- Looking through the wardrobe -- Love and protection: strategies of conservation -- Sacrifice and exchange -- Adding value: recycling and transformation -- Value and potential
In today's globally connected marketplace, a wedding sari in rural north India may become a woman's blouse or cushion cover in a Western boutique. Lucy Norris's anthropological study of the recycling of clothes in Delhi follows garments as they are gifted, worn, handed on, discarded, recycled, and sold once more. Gifts of clothing are used to make and break relationships within middle-class households, but a growing surplus of unwanted clothing now contributes to a global glut of textile waste. When ol
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ISBN:0253004500
0253222087
025335501X
9780253004505
9780253222084
9780253355010

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