Shedding Skins
The Materiality of Divestment in India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2390843 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lucy Norris (0000-0002-2567-3426, University College London, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 59-71 |
| Publication date | 2004-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Material Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1359183504041805 |
| OpenAlex | W2021058775 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 19 |
This article calls for a reconsideration of the materiality of things in dynamic processes of self-making and personhood. Grounded in research in contemporary urban India, it is argued that it is in the act of divestment that the capacity for the recreation of the self is made most apparent, due to the intimate connection between clothing and the body. Cloth is also a vital element of gift-giving and the re-creation of social networks. The case study of a woman trying to get rid of an unwanted garment highlights the options available and the different regimes of value by which the worth of used clothing can be assessed. These include handing on treasured pieces to family members, recycling within the home, giving to servants, bartering them for new stainless steel pots or burning them for their silver and gold content. The sacrifice and destruction of such intimate objects are the necessary prerequisite for the renewal of self within a network of mutually constitutive person-object relations
Aesthetics · Art · Clothing · Divestment · Materiality (auditing · Personhood · Political science · Recreation · Sacrifice · Sociology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law
Justice and politics in energy access for education, livelihoods and health
Memory politics and material culture
The Dialogic Fashioning of Women's Dress in the Sultanate of Oman
Bound from Head to Toe
From the biomoral to the biopolitical
Rethinking governance and value in commodity chains through global recycling networks
Cultures of lights
Following things of rubbish value
The last thing I would think about is how to dispose of it’
Perceptions of Consumption
Recycling and Reincarnation
Identity, Mobility, and the Throwaway Society
Clothing and colonialism
The smell of Shōwa
Twenty Years On
Clothing sociality
Undocumented migration, use wear, and the materiality of habitual suffering in the Sonoran Desert
The Materiality of Domestic Waste
The Secret Life of Sarongs
Pots and political economy
Of love and fur
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,11 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2025 (19) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |