Recycling Indian clothing : global contexts of reuse and value /

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Author / Creator:Norris, Lucy, 1965-
Imprint:Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2010.
Description:1 online resource (x, 226 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Language:English
Series:Tracking globalization
Tracking globalization.
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11229528
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ISBN:9780253004505
0253004500
1282818279
9781282818279
9786612818271
6612818271
9780253355010
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9780253222084
0253222087
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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.
Other form:Print version: Norris, Lucy, 1965- Recycling Indian clothing. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2010 9780253355010
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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.

Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 226 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Format: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.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780253004505
0253004500
1282818279
9781282818279
9786612818271
6612818271
9780253355010
025335501X
9780253222084
0253222087
Access:Limited Users and Download Restrictions may Apply, ProQuest 325 User Credits. Available using University of Exeter Username and Password.