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Watching the English by Kate Fox (Paperback, 2005)
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- Buy it nowWatching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour by Kate Fox 2004
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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherHodder & Stoughton
ISBN-139780340818862
eBay Product ID (ePID)90360087
Product Key Features
Number of Pages432 Pages
Publication NameWatching the English
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAnthropology
Publication Year2005
TypeTextbook
AuthorKate Fox
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height196 mm
Item Weight300 g
Item Width130 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorKate Fox
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- 12 Nov, 2018
English behaviour
Oh so accurate and funny account of our behaviour! Bit repetitive in places and not always easy reading but glad I persevered with it! Find myself people watching more! Even having a little giggle at things people do now!Verified purchase: Yes
- 27 May, 2019
Amusing and entertaining
This book is now a little out of date but much of the content very insightful and made me chuckle.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 28 Jan, 2018
Thank you!
Verified purchase: Yes
- 25 Jan, 2018
It’s good.
Verified purchase: Yes
- 31 Jan, 2018
A bit biased.
It is good in part like the curate's egg but other areas are actually inaccurate. I would therefore dispute it on those grounds. I am not sure that we are all as a nation socially inept. Sounds a lot like an insult to me. But as they say - each to their own.Verified purchase: Yes
- 24 Feb, 2023
Why would I need to do this? It feels like work
She is rigorously scientific but also very witty and writes engaginglyVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 15 Jan, 2019
Very disappointed in this book
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 03 Jul, 2019
Good book
Nice bookVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 04 Jun, 2020
I wish I would rea it earlier .
Very good book .I wish I would rea it earlier .Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 10 Nov, 2020
Good but
Tank you. Good book but the font are soooo small...Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
