Watching the English: The International Bestseller Revised and Updated - Rilegato

Fox, Kate

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ISBN 10: 144478739X ISBN 13: 9781444787399

Casa editrice: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2014

Riassunto

In this completely revised and updated edition of international bestseller WATCHING THE ENGLISH, anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and foibles of the English people. Now with new survey data to add weight to her original fieldwork findings, and more extensive field-research and experiments to back up earlier observations, Kate Fox has deciphered yet more enigmatic behaviour codes, adding new rules, new subcultures, new chapters and over 100 updates. If you're English, this new edition of Kate Fox's acclaimed international bestseller will make you stand back and re-examine everything you take for granted - and if you aren't English you'll finally understand all our peculiar little ways. WATCHING THE ENGLISH has sold more than half a million copies and has been translated into many languages. Not only a worldwide bestseller, but also a set text for university anthropology courses, WATCHING THE ENGLISH has been widely praised as a revealing and entertaining dissection of the English national character.

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Recensione:

Kate Fox's brilliant idea is to treat the British as another tribe...where she's particularly astute is in examining the exact pattern of clich?s. Any study of the English must cover our class obsession, and Fox deals with the subject thoroughly. (Harry Mount, author of How England Made the English)

An absolutely brilliant examination of English culture. (The Times - Jennifer Saunders)

Her observations are acute . . . she doesn't write like an anthropologist but like an English woman - with amusement, not solemnity, able to laugh at herself as well as us. (Daily Mail)

Brilliant and hilarious (The Vanity of Small Differences - Grayson Perry)

She is the only popular UK anthropologist of substance since the 1970s. (Professor of Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University - Jeremy MacClancy)

This is an entertaining, clever book. Do read it and then pass it on. (Daily Telegraph)

She is smart . . . raises some serious issues . . . poses a challenge to British social anthropology that we need to meet . . . This book should enter into professional discussions of the future of anthropology . . . Fox has astutely lined herself up to take a leading position in a rethink of the discipline's object, theory and method. (Anthropology Today - Professor Keith Hart)

I read it cover to cover in a few days . . . very sharp and witty prose. It really is funny - the sort of humour that makes you laugh out loud on your own! (Vice - Martin Parr)

Hilarious and insightful (Professor of Material Culture, University College London - Daniel Miller)

She has not only compiled a comprehensive list of English qualities, she has examined them in depth . . . A delightful read. (Sunday Times)

L'autore:

Kate Fox, a social anthropologist, is Co-Director of the Social Issues Research Centre in Oxford and a Fellow of the Institute for Cultural Research. She is also a bestselling author of popular social science.

Kate's other books include The Racing Tribe: Watching the Horsewatchers and Drinking and Public Disorder (co-author with Dr Peter Marsh).

Kate is regularly invited to speak at the major literary festivals, as well as guest lectures and seminars at universities, institutes, embassies, trade and professional conferences, etc. in the UK and overseas. She gave the Christmas Lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, and won a debate against Boris Johnson for Intelligence Squared, among other high-profile engagements. She is frequently quoted in the Press and interviewed on radio and television. Kate has also been a regular columnist for Psychologies magazine.

Kate is married to the neurosurgeon Henry Marsh, CBE.

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• Editore: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 144478739X
• ISBN 13: 9781444787399
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 528