Blue Jeans by Daniel Miller

Blue Jeans by Daniel Miller

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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.

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Blue Jeans by Daniel Miller

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.
"Blue Jeans provides a useful introduction to sociological theories and methodologies; it would be an ideal text for students" -- Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell Ornament
Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology at University College, London. He is the author of many books, including The Comfort of Things, Stuff, and Tales from Facebook. Sophie Woodward is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester and the author of Why Women Wear What They Wear.
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ISBN 13 9780520272194
ISBN 10 0520272196
Title Blue Jeans
Author Daniel Miller
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of California Press
Year published 2012-02-01
Number of pages 184
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.