Global Perspectives on Changing Secondhand Economies - Paperback

by Karen Tranberg Hansen (Editor), Jennifer Le Zotte (Editor)

Providing interdisciplinary and global perspectives, this book examines historical and contemporary changes in secondhand economies.

Author Biography

Karen Tranberg Hansen is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Northwestern University. Her publications include Distant Companions: Servants and Employers in Zambia, 1900-1985 (1989), African Encounters with Domesticity (1992), Keeping House in Lusaka (1997), and Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia (2000).

Jennifer Le Zotte is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, specializing in gender, race, capitalism, and material culture, especially dress. Her publications include From Goodwill to Grunge: A History of Secondhand Styles and Alternative Economies (2017).