Blue Jeans The Art of the Ordinary

Name: Blue Jeans The Art of the Ordinary
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ISBN: 9780520272194

ISBN-10: 0520272196

ISBN-13: 9780520272194

Edition: 2011

Authors: Daniel Miller, Sophie Woodward

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This fresh and accessible ethnography offers a new vision of how society might cohere, in the face of on-going global displacement, dislocation, and migration. Based on intensive field work in a highly diverse North London neighborhood, Daniel Miller and Sophie Woodward focus on an everyday item--blue jeans--to learn what one simple article of clothing can tell us about our individual and social lives and challenging, by extension, the foundational anthropological presumption of "the normative." Miller and Woodward argue that blue jeans do not always represent social and cultural difference, from gender and wealth, to style and circumstance. Instead they find that jeans allow individuals to…

Book details

Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 2/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Life



Relationships



Fashion



Comfortable



Ordinary



The Struggle for Ordinary






Sociology: The Ordinary and the Routine


Bibliography


Index