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Blue Jeans : The Art of the Ordinary / Daniel Miller, Sophie Woodward.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Daniel, Author.
- Woodward, Sophie, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clothing and dress.
- Denim--Social aspects.
- Jeans (Clothing)--Social aspects.
- Material culture.
- Jeans (Clothing).
- Denim.
- Local Subjects:
- Clothing and dress.
- Denim--Social aspects.
- Jeans (Clothing)--Social aspects.
- Material culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (179 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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. Drawing from intensive fieldwork 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 inhabit what the authors term "the ordinary." Miller and Woodward demonstrate that the emphasis on becoming ordinary is important for immigrants and the population of North London more generally, and they call into question foundational principles behind anthropology, sociology and philosophy.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Life
- Chapter 2. Relationships
- Chapter 3. Fashion
- Chapter 4. Comfortable
- Chapter 5. Ordinary
- Chapter 6. The Struggle for Ordinary
- Chapter 7. Anthropology: From Normative to Ordinary
- Chapter 8. Sociology: The Ordinary and the Routine
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786613373595
- 9781283373593
- 1283373599
- 9780520952089
- 0520952081
- OCLC:
- 768732521
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