| Global Denim Contributor(s): Miller, Daniel (Editor), Woodward, Sophie (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1847886310 ISBN-13: 9781847886316 Publisher: Berg Publishers OUR PRICE: $40.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Popular Culture - Design | Fashion & Accessories |
| Dewey: 306.4 |
| LCCN: 2010031660 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.79 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: On any given day nearly half the world's population is wearing blue jeans. This is entirely extraordinary. Yet there has never been a serious attempt to understand the causes, nature and consequences of denim as 'the' global garment of our world. This book takes up that challenge with gusto. It gives clear, if surprising, explanations for why this is the case, challenging the accepted history of jeans and showing why the reasons cannot be commercial. While discussing the consequences of denim at the global level, the book consists of some exemplary studies by anthropologists of what blue jeans mean in a variety of local situations. These range from the discussion of hip-hop jeans in Germany, denim and sex in Milan through to the connection between denim and recycling in the US. But through all these intensively researched ethnographies of local denim we build our understanding of the most curious of all features of blue jeans - the rise of global denim. |
Contributor Bio(s): Miller, Daniel: - Daniel Miller Professor of Anthropology, University College London. Recent books include "A Theory of Shopping," "The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach" (with Don Slater) and Ed. "Car Cultures."Woodward, Sophie: - SOPHIE WOODWARD is Research Fellow and Lecturer in the School of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University, UK. |