Salaula The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia

Name: Salaula The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia
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ISBN: 9780226315812

ISBN-10: 0226315819

ISBN-13: 9780226315812

Edition: 2000

Authors: Karen Tranberg Hansen

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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…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 314
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Maps, and Tables


Acknowledgments


Introduction: The World of Salaula



Dealing with Clothing



Clothing Encounters



Clothing Needs and Desires



Secondhand Clothing and the Congo Connection



Dressing the New Nation



A Secondhand Clothing System of Provision



The Sourcing of Secondhand Clothing



Import, Wholesale, and Distribution



Clothing Retail Prices



The Work of Consumption



Clothing, Gender, and Power



The Politics of Salaula Conclusion: Other People's Clothes?


Notes


References


Index