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In WATCHING THE ENGLISH anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and foibles of the English people. She puts the English national character under her anthropological microscope, and finds a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and byzantine codes of behaviour. The rules of weather-speak. The ironic-gnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid-pantomime rule. Class indicators and class anxiety tests. The money-talk taboo and many more . . . Through a mixture of anthropological analysis and her own unorthodox experiments (using herself as a reluctant guinea-pig), Kate Fox discovers what these unwritten behaviour codes tell us about Englishness.
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Watching the English. The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour, Kate Fox
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- Released
- 2005
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- Title
- Watching the English. The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Kate Fox
- Publisher
- Hodder
- Released
- 2005
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 432
- ISBN10
- 0340818867
- ISBN13
- 9780340818862
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Textbooks, Maps & Travel, Self-Help, Language Textbooks & Dictionaries, Travel, Psychological Topics, Humor, Psychology, Family, Friendship, Travel Guides, USA, Relationships, Languages, Parenting, British Literature, Sociology, Language Textbooks, England, Society, Culture and Society, Life, Great Britain, Parenthood, Anthropology, London, Culture, 21st Century, Interpersonal relationships, Everyday Life, Employment, Ethnology, Behaviour, Ethology, Weather, British, English People
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- In WATCHING THE ENGLISH anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and foibles of the English people. She puts the English national character under her anthropological microscope, and finds a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and byzantine codes of behaviour. The rules of weather-speak. The ironic-gnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid-pantomime rule. Class indicators and class anxiety tests. The money-talk taboo and many more . . . Through a mixture of anthropological analysis and her own unorthodox experiments (using herself as a reluctant guinea-pig), Kate Fox discovers what these unwritten behaviour codes tell us about Englishness.