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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
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2005
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- Titel
- Watching the English
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Kate Fox
- Verlag
- Hodder
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2005
- ISBN10
- 1444720155
- ISBN13
- 9781444720150
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Sozialwissenschaften, Lehrbücher, Karten & Reisen, Lebenshilfe, Sprachbücher & -lexika, Reisen, Psychologische Thematik, Humor, Psychologie, Familie, Freundschaft, Reiseführer, USA, Beziehungen, Mutterschaft & Elternschaft, Sprachen, Britische Literatur, Soziologie, Sprachlehrbücher, England, Gesellschaft, Kultur und Gesellschaft, Leben, Großbritannien, Elternschaft, Anthropologie, London, Kultur, Beziehungen & Kommunikation, 21. Jahrhundert, Alltagsleben, Beschäftigung, Ethnologie, Verhaltung, Ethologie, Wetter, Briten, Engländer
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- 3,9 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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.