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    Watching the English

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    ISBN: 9780340818862
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    AuthorFOX
    Pub Date11/04/2005
    BindingPaperback
    Pages432
    Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division
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    The hardback bestseller now in paperback: 'An entertaining and clever book. Do read it.' -

    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.