Blue Jeans: The Art of the Ordinary

by Sophie Woodward and Daniel Miller

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520272196
• ISBN13: 9780520272194
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.9"