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Blue Jeans
The Art of the Ordinary
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2012
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This fresh and accessible ethnography offers a new vision of how society might cohere, in the face of on-going global displacement, dislocation, and migration. Drawing from intensive fieldwork in a highly diverse North London neighborhood, Daniel Miller and Sophie Woodward focus 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." Miller and Woodward argue that blue jeans do not always represent social and cultural difference, from gender and wealth, to style and circumstance. Instead they find that jeans allow individuals to inhabit what the authors term "the ordinary." Miller and Woodward demonstrate that the emphasis on becoming ordinary is important for immigrants and the population of North London more generally, and they call into question foundational principles behind anthropology, sociology and philosophy.
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Contributor: Daniel Miller
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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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Chapter 1. Life
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Chapter 2. Relationships
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Chapter 3. Fashion
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Chapter 4. Comfortable
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Chapter 5. Ordinary
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Chapter 6. The Struggle for Ordinary
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Chapter 7. Anthropology: From Normative to Ordinary
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Chapter 8. Sociology: The Ordinary and the Routine
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Index
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July 22, 2019
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9780520952089
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Keywords for this book
jeans; global displacement; globalization; north london; clothing; ethnography; global dislocation; global migration; international relations; fieldwork; great britain; anthropology; sociology; gender studies; wealth studies; class studies; social differences; cultural differences; clothing styles; immigrants; immigration; diverse population; philosophy; community; diversity; normative; society; clothes; individual lives; social lives
