Watching the English The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour

Kate Fox

ISBN 10: 0340818859 / ISBN 13: 9780340818855

Editore: Hodder and Stoughton, 2004

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Brown boards lettered in silver to spine. Unworn, unclipped jacket. Internally clean and unmarked. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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• Titolo: Watching the English The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
• Editore: Hodder and Stoughton
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0340818859
• ISBN 13: 9780340818855
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: First Edition.
• Condizione: Very Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Very Good

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Riassunto

In Watching The English anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks and habits of the English people. From the most famous national traits through to the most bizarre reflex reactions, she holds a mirror up to the English national character and finds a complex tribe, riddled with unspoken rules and unique codes of behaviour. Watching The English covers drinking, eating, shopping, driving, flirting, fighting, apologising and many more - all the things that make up a country world-renowned for its quirkiness. Through a mixture of anthropological analysis, observation and her own unusual experiments, Kate Fox shows how the peculiar idea of 'Englishness' has shaped itself over the years. Watching The English is written with an insider's knowledge but from an outsider's perspective. Combining anthropology with a dry wit and a writer's eye for detail, the behaviour of the English will never look the same again.

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If you like this kind of anthropology (and I do) there is a wealth of it to enjoy in this book. Her observations are acute...fortunately 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)

I loved the section on mobile-phone etiquette. Shrewd...I liked the chapter on English humour. This is an entertaining, clever book. Do read it and then pass it on. (Daily Telegraph)