Watching the English. The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
- Kategoria:
- nauki społeczne (psychologia, socjologia, itd.)
- Wydawnictwo:
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Data wydania:
- 2005-04-11
- Data 1. wydania:
- 2005-04-11
- Liczba stron:
- 436
- Czas czytania
- 7 godz. 16 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- ISBN:
- 9780340818862
- Tagi:
- antropologia Anglia Wielka Brytania społeczeństwo
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.