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Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth India
Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth India
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Size: Hardcover
In India, you can still find the
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.
offers an anthropological and historical account of India's complex relationship with garbage.