Recycling Indian Clothing: Global Contexts of Reuse and Value

by Lucy Norris

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253222087
• ISBN13: 9780253222084
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher