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Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour Book

Takes a look at the quirks, habits and foibles of the English people. This work puts the English national character under the anthropological microscope, and finds a strange culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and byzantine codes of behaviour. It also discovers what these unwritten behaviour codes tell us about Englishness.Read More

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    The hardback bestseller now in paperback: 'An entertaining and clever book. Do read it.' - 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 ironicgnome 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.

  • 0340818867
  • 9780340818862
  • Kate Fox
  • 11 April 2005
  • Hodder & Stoughton
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 432

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