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by: Kate Fox
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 390.0941
EAN: 9781857885088
ISBN: 1857885082
Label: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Manufacturer: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: May 25, 2008
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Sales Rank: 2599
Studio: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
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A bestseller in the UK, Watching the English is a biting, affectionate, insightful and often hilarious look English Society. Putting the English national character under her anthropological microscope, Fox finds a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and bizarre codes of behavior. Through a mixture of anthropological analysis and her own unorthodox experiments-even using herself as a reluctant guinea-pig-Fox discovers what these unwritten codes tell us about Englishness.
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Rating: - Mid-Atlantic reading on the English
Although international industry analyst firms aim to use similar methods when writing their research, winning sales recommendations still means connecting with the `go-to' analysts in national markets. I tend to recommend Kate Fox's book, Watching the English, to those trying to cross the cultural divide when briefing industry analysts here.
Fox is an Oxford-based anthopologist who is better known for her studies of English behavior at the race course and in the pub. It is popularly ... Read More
Rating:  - The Social Dis-ease
Social anthroplogist, Kate Fox, has observed the English (she is one) in in all seasons and conditions, and particularly in the places where they are most comfortable. Her books include PUB WATCHING with Desmond Morris, and PASSPORT TO THE PUB; The Tourist's Guide to Pub Etiquette. The book is witty in its analysis of the ways of English conversation and behaviour with its unwritten codes, and of weather-speak, reflex apology, ironic-gnome, money talk, and panaroid-pantomime rules which belie ... Read More
Rating: - The Bible to the English ways!
A pleasure to read and to smile at some of the most British ways of seeing life and smelling the weather!
Rating: - Watching the English
I've only just begun reading, but so far, it's been quite enjoyable. The author writes with humor. I've some British online friends. I've been able to use tidbits from the book when joking around with them.
Rating: - Excellent Study, Worthwhile Reading
I had read Barzini's well known works on the Europeans and thoroughly enjoyed this book on the English.
The approach is academic yet palatable, laden with insightful observations and well deserves consideration as a work of anthropological interest. The author maintains an objective distance and professional methodology which impart a delicious irony; we are conditioned to primitive cultures as the provenance of these studies, she turns the focus upon what some may argue as the bastion ... Read More
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