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Watching the English

Paperback • 2005 • English

Watching the English

By Kate Fox

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About the book

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...Show more

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ISBN

9780340818862

Publisher

Hodder Paperback

Published year

2005

Language

English

Original title

Watching the English

Format

Paperback

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