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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Kate Fox! a social anthropologist! is Co-Director of the Social Issues Research Centre in Oxford. Her work involves monitoring and assessing global sociocultural trends! and has included research! publications and broadcasts on many aspects of human behaviour including: social aspects of drinking! sex differences! flirting! body image! pub culture! gossip! eating! health issues! taboos! horseracing! mobile phones! email! stress! drugs! crime! violence and disorder. Vorwort The hardback bestseller now in paperback: 'An entertaining and clever book. Do read it.' - Zusammenfassung 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.
