Tag Archives: anthropology

Second Hand Clothing at Material World Blog

Our friends at the Material World Blog have a new post about a special edition of Textile: the Journal of Cloth and Culture focused entirely on second hand clothing. In her book Recycling Reconsidered, Samantha MacBride discusses the “hidden” nature of discarded textiles, which “have quietly escalated as a fraction of municipal solid waste with […]
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Publishing Opportunity | March 1 deadline

Discard Studies is a relatively new endeavor, but it meshes well with other forms of scholarship and advocacy — especially those wanting to reach an audience outside academia. In that spirit, the Center for a Public Anthropology (warning: their link opens with music) has partnered with the University of California Press to issue a call […]
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