Miller Daniel - Blue jeans: the art of the ordinary

Acknowledgments

As always in such work, our first acknowledgment has to be to our participants. We are always amazed, but also very grateful, when so many people agree to open their doors and give us time, especially when there can be little pretense that a topic such as denim would ever be of much direct benefit to them. There is something about the graciousness of ordinary people that a project such as this brings out, and it is always worth acknowledging. We are very grateful too for the help of Alesya Krit and Sabrina Miller, our two interns. Given our commitments to teaching and university administrative duties, we could not have done this research without a grant toward the transcribing of interviews from The British Academy (award number SG-49624), the only funding we had for this project. We would also like to thank Naomi Braithwaite, who helped collect background bibliographic information and collate our more quantitative information. An earlier version of appeared in American Ethnologist as Anthropology in Blue Jeans.

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10/13 Sabon

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Sabon

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Westchester Book Group

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Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group

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