Description |
1 online resource (x, 226 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color). |
Series |
Tracking globalization |
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Tracking globalization.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Note |
Print version record. |
Contents |
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. |
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. |
Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Clothing and dress -- India.
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Clothing and dress -- Environmental aspects -- India.
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Clothing and dress -- India -- Remaking.
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Used clothing industry -- India.
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Culture and globalization -- India.
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Recycled products -- India.
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Social sciences.
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Human ecology -- Study and teaching.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- Waste Management.
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Clothing and dress. (OCoLC)fst00864680
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Clothing and dress -- Environmental aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00864692
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Clothing and dress -- Remaking.
(OCoLC)fst00864718
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Culture and globalization. (OCoLC)fst01736229
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Recycled products. (OCoLC)fst01091994
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Used clothing industry. (OCoLC)fst01163139
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India. (OCoLC)fst01210276
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Globalisierung. (DE-588)4557997-0
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Kleidung. (DE-588)4031011-5
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Wiederverwendung. (DE-588)4240291-8
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Bekleidungshandel. (DE-588)4140343-5
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India. (DE-588)4026722-2
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Other Form: |
Print version: Norris, Lucy, 1965- Recycling Indian clothing. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2010 9780253355010 (DLC) 2009053205 (OCoLC)437301841 |
Standard No. |
9786612818271 |
ISBN |
9780253004505 (electronic bk.) |
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0253004500 (electronic bk.) |