Global Denim

Chapter One: The Global Denim Project: Daniel Miller, University College London, and Sophie Woodward, University of Manchester




Chapter Two: The Making of an American Icon: The Transformation of Blue Jeans during the Great Depression: Sandra Comstock, University of Western Ontario




Chapter Three: Diverting Denim: The Ecology of Jeans in Popular Hindi Film: Clare Wilkinson-Weber, Washington State University




Chapter Four: How Blue Jeans went Green: The Materiality of an American Icon, Bodil Olesen, Aarhus University




Chapter Five: The Limits of Jeans in Kannur, Kerala, Daniel Miller




Chapter Six: 'Brazilian Jeans': Materiality, Body and Seduction at a Rio de Janeiro Funk Ball: Mylene Mizrahi, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro




Chapter Seven: Indigo Bodies: Fashion, Mirror Work and Sexual Identity in Milan, Roberta Sassatelli, University of Milan




Chapter Eight: Jeanealogies: The (Im)permanence of Relationships, Sophie Woodward




Chapter Nine: Picaldi Jeans and the figuration of working-class male youth identities in Berlin: An ethnographic account: Moritz Ege, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin




Chapter Ten: The jeans that don't fit: marketing cheap jeans in Brazil: Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul




Index