02382nam 2200529Ia 450 991081051250332120200520144314.01-283-07969-097866130796950-85785-142-X(CKB)2550000000033252(EBL)799554(OCoLC)719377471(MiAaPQ)EBC799554(EXLCZ)99255000000003325220100729d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGlobal denim /edited by Daniel Miller and Sophie WoodwardEnglish ed.Oxford ;New York Berg20111 online resource (212 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84788-631-0 1-84788-632-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexOn 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 jeansJeans (Clothing)Social aspectsDenimSocial aspectsCulture and globalizationJeans (Clothing)Social aspects.DenimSocial aspects.Culture and globalization.306.4Miller Daniel118348Woodward Sophie1090036MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810512503321Global Denim4031949UNINA