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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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Watching the English, Kate Fox
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2005
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- Titolo
- Watching the English
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Kate Fox
- Editore
- Hodder
- Pubblicato
- 2005
- ISBN10
- 1444720155
- ISBN13
- 9781444720150
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Scienze sociali, Libri di testo, Mappe e viaggi, Auto-aiuto, Dizionari Linguistici e Libri di Testo, Viaggi, Temi psicologici, Umorismo, Psicologia, Famiglia, Amicizia, Guide turistiche, USA, Relazioni, Lingue, Maternità e Genitorialità, Letteratura britannica, Sociologia, Manuali di lingua, Società, Inghilterra, Cultura e Società, Vita, Gran Bretagna, Genitorialità, Antropologia, Londra, Cultura, 21° Secolo, Relazioni interpersonali, Vita quotidiana, Occupazione, Etnologia, Comportamento, etologia, Meteo, Britannici, Inglesi
- Valutazione
- 3,9 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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.