Global denim

by Miller, Daniel Woodward, Sophie

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Title Statements

Full title :Global denim / edited by Daniel Miller and Sophie Woodward.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.
Edition:English ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Berg
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (viii, 204 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781472504401, 1472504402, 9781847887399, 1847887392, 9780857851420, 085785142X
oclc:ocn719377471
LC Classification:GT2085
Dewey Decimal:306.4

Subjects

Cultural studies Culture and globalization Culture et mondialisation Denim -- Aspect social Denim -- Social aspects Fashion & society Jeans -- Aspect social Jeans (Clothing) -- Social aspects POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy Social & cultural anthropology, ethnogr… SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture Sociology