Blue Jeans: The Art of the Ordinary
Daniel Miller and Sophie Woodward
Abstract
This fresh and accessible ethnography offers a new vision of how society might cohere, in the face of ongoing global displacement, dislocation, and migration. Drawing from intensive fieldwork in a highly diverse North London neighborhood, the book focuses 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.” The authors argue that blue jeans do not always represent social and cultural difference, from gender and wealth, to style ... More
Keywords: global displacement, dislocation, migration, blue jeans, clothing, immigrants, North London, social difference, cultural difference
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2012 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520272187 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: September 2016 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520272187.001.0001 |
