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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 provides a useful introduction to sociological theories and methodologies; it would be an ideal text for students." -- Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell Ornament

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Life 2. Relationships 3. Fashion 4. Comfortable 5. Ordinary 6. The Struggle for Ordinary 7. Anthropology: From Normative to Ordinary 8. Sociology: The Ordinary and the Routine Bibliography Index

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    A Paperback / softback by Daniel Miller, Sophie Woodward

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 01/02/2012
      ISBN13: 9780520272194, 978-0520272194
      ISBN10: 0520272196
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      Cultural studies Social and cultural anthropology Social groups, communities and identities

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      "Blue Jeans provides a useful introduction to sociological theories and methodologies; it would be an ideal text for students." -- Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell Ornament

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Life 2. Relationships 3. Fashion 4. Comfortable 5. Ordinary 6. The Struggle for Ordinary 7. Anthropology: From Normative to Ordinary 8. Sociology: The Ordinary and the Routine Bibliography Index

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