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Dissecting Englishness through anthropological wit.

Delving into "Watching the English" is akin to being handed a secret map to navigate the intricate labyrinth of English culture. Kate Fox's approach is both scholarly and accessible, allowing you to chuckle while you appreciate the subtleties that make English people tick. It's perfect for anyone intrigued by cultural idiosyncrasies or for an expat attempting to decode the social maze of England.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9780340818862
Authors: Kate Fox
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Date of Publication: 2005-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Science, History, Sociology, Travel
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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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Dissecting Englishness through anthropological wit.

Delving into "Watching the English" is akin to being handed a secret map to navigate the intricate labyrinth of English culture. Kate Fox's approach is both scholarly and accessible, allowing you to chuckle while you appreciate the subtleties that make English people tick. It's perfect for anyone intrigued by cultural idiosyncrasies or for an expat attempting to decode the social maze of England.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.