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Recycling Indian clothing : global contexts of reuse and value / Lucy Norris.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Norris, Lucy, 1965-
- Series:
- Tracking globalization.
- Tracking globalization
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clothing and dress--India.
- Clothing and dress.
- Clothing and dress--Environmental aspects--India.
- Clothing and dress--India--Remaking.
- Used clothing industry--India.
- Used clothing industry.
- Culture and globalization--India.
- Culture and globalization.
- Recycled products--India.
- Recycled products.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 226 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 old clothing is, for instance, bartered for new kitchen utensils, it enters a vast waste commodity system in which it may be resold to the poor or remade into new textiles and exported. Norris traces these local and transnational flows through homes and markets as she tells the stories of the people who work in the largely hidden world of fabric recycling.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Recycling Indian Clothing: THE GLOBAL CONTEXT""; ""2. Fieldwork Contexts""; ""3. Looking through the Wardrobe""; ""4. Love and Protection: STRATEGIES OF CONSERVATION""; ""Insert""; ""5. Sacrifice and Exchange""; ""6. Adding Value: RECYCLING AND TRANSFORMATION""; ""7. Value and Potential""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-81827-9
- 9786612818271
- 0-253-00450-0
- OCLC:
- 657650192
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