Watching the English. The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
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...
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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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Format: papier
ISBN:
9780340818862
Publish date: 11 kwietnia 2005
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Pages no: 436
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Humor,
Humanities,
Language,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Science,
Culture,
Sociology,
Anthropology,
Psychology
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