Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India

by Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey

Book Overview

In India, you can still find the kabaadiwala, the rag-and-bone man. He wanders from house to house buying old newspapers, broken utensils, plastic bottles--anything for which he can get a little cash. This custom persists and recreates itself alongside the new economies and ecologies of consumer capitalism. Waste of a Nation offers an anthropological and historical account of India's complex relationship with garbage.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674980603
• ISBN13: 9780674980600
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"