Recycling Indian Clothing: Global Contexts of Reuse and Value (Tracking Globalization) - Softcover

Norris, Lucy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253222087 ISBN 13: 9780253222084

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Cloth and clothing is never just thrown out as rubbish in India. Until it is literally falling apart, it is too useful to be wasted. Treasured pieces can be preserved for favorite younger relatives, and suitable, serviceable clothes gifted to a maid. But what happens to the increasing surplus of clothing that is ‘too good for the maid’? The most problematic category of all is that of old silk saris, once the most valuable clothing in the home and potentially the most redundant.... Hidden out of sight in warehouses, factories, workshops and the backstreets of slum neighbourhoods, vast quantities of old, unwanted clothing that have been bartered for pots are recycled for the local and global markets.

About this title

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Review:

Norris succeeds in opening up for scholarly discussion an important new area of textile and South Asian studies, and produces a text that will be enjoyed across disciplines by students and scholars interested in global practices of recycling and the circulation of material culture. Source: Cultural Analysis

The information is highly researched, referenced, and footnoted, but presented as a series of stories that make the topic more engaging. November/December 2010 Source: AATCC Review

Throughout the book, the writing remains clear and accessible, full of textured descriptions which seem to recreate the streets of Delhi. It is sure to inform specialists in the anthropology of consumption and globalisation, but remains accessible to all readers interested in a profound understanding of the recycled clothing trade in India. Source: South Asia Research

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0253222087
• ISBN 13: 9780253222084
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256