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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781384603321

Autore

Miller Daniel

Titolo

Global Denim [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Berg Publishers, 2010

ISBN

1-283-07969-0

9786613079695

0-85785-142-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WoodwardSophie

Disciplina

306.4

Soggetti

Culture and globalization

Denim -- Social aspects

Jeans (Clothing) -- Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 The Making of an American Icon; 2 Diverting Denim; 3 How Blue Jeans went Green; 4 The Limits of Jeans in Kannur, Kerala; 5 'Brazilian Jeans'; 6 Indigo Bodies; 7 Jeanealogies; 8 Carrot-cut Jeans; 9 The Jeans that Don't Fit; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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