Watching the English
Author | : Kate Fox |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2005-04-11 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781848940505 |
ISBN-13 | : 1848940505 |
Rating | : 4/5 (505 Downloads) |
Download or read book Watching the English written by Kate Fox and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2005-04-11 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.