La 4e de couv. indique : "Que deviennent nos vêtements usagés après avoir été donnés à une organisation caritative ? C’est en partant de cette interrogation que cet ouvrage propose de retracer et d’analyser les multiples parcours de la fripe dans les méandres de notre économie...

"A groundbreaking chronicle of the birth--and death--of a pair of jeans, that exposes the fractures in our global supply chains, and our relationships to each other, ourselves, and the planet Take a look at your favorite pair of jeans. Maybe you bought them on Amazon or the Gap; maybe the tag...

Volume 41 of Research in Economic Anthropology explores a wide range of topics of interest to economic anthropology. The opening paper presents a novel approach to anthropological-economic infrastructural research in England, specifically London's Thames Tideway Tunnel. The volume's first...