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Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia

Autor Karen Tranberg Hansen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – aug 2000
When we donate our unwanted clothes to charity, we rarely think about what will happen to them: who will sort and sell them, and finally, who will revive and wear them. In this fascinating look at the multibillion dollar secondhand clothing business, Karen Tranberg Hansen takes us around the world from the West, where clothing is donated, through the salvage houses in North America and Europe, where it is sorted and compressed, to Africa, in this case, Zambia. There it enters the dynamic world of Salaula, a Bemba term that means "to rummage through a pile."

Essential for the African economy, the secondhand clothing business is wildly popular, to the point of threatening the indigenous textile industry. But, Hansen shows, wearing secondhand clothes is about much more than imitating Western styles. It is about taking a garment and altering it to something entirely local, something that adheres to current cultural norms of etiquette. By unraveling how these garments becomes entangled in the economic, political, and cultural processes of contemporary Zambia, Hansen also raises provocative questions about environmentalism, charity, recycling, and thrift.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226315812
ISBN-10: 0226315819
Pagini: 314
Ilustrații: 68 halftones, 3 maps, 4 line drawings, 5 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

Cuprins

List of Illustrations, Maps, and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The World of Salaula
Part 1 - Dealing with Clothing
1. Clothing Encounters
2. Clothing Needs and Desires
3. Secondhand Clothing and the Congo Connection
4. Dressing the New Nation
Part 2 - A Secondhand Clothing System of Provision
5. The Sourcing of Secondhand Clothing
6. Import, Wholesale, and Distribution
7. Clothing Retail Prices
8. The Work of Consumption
9. Clothing, Gender, and Power
10. The Politics of Salaula
Conclusion: Other People's Clothes?
Notes
References
Index