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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.
| ISBN | 0340818867 | | Pages | 432 | | ISBN13 | 9780340818862
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 300 | | Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton General Division | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Hodder & Stoughton Paperbacks | | Height (mm) | 28 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 130 | | Publication date | 11 Apr 2005 | | Spine width (mm) | 196 | | DEWEY | 306.0942 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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She has not only compiled a comprehensive list of English qualities, she has examined them in depth and wondered how we came to acquire them. Her book is a delightful read. -- The Sunday Times 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 Amusing ... entertaining. -- The Times Watching the English ... will make you laugh out loud ("Oh God. I do that!") and cringe simultaneously ("Oh God. I do that as well."). This is a hilarious book which just shows us for what we are ... beautifully-observed. It is a wonderful read for both the English and those who look at us and wonder why we do what we do. Now they'll know. -- Birmingham Post Fascinating reading. -- Oxford Times An absolutely brilliant examination of English culture and how foreigners take as complete mystery the things we take for granted. -- Jennifer Saunders, The Times 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  Be the first to write a customer review
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