Kate Fox, the social anthropologist who put the quirks and
hidden conditions of the English under a microscope, is back with
more biting insights about the nature of Englishness. This updated
and revised edition of "Watching the English" features a new
foreword and fresh chapters on the unwritten rules and foibles of
"squaddies," bikers, horse-riders, and more. Fox revisits a strange
and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules
and bizarre codes of behavior. She demystifies the peculiar
cultural rules that baffle us: the rules of weather-speak, the
ironic-gnome rule, the reflex apology rule, the paranoid-pantomime
rule, class anxiety tests, the money-talk taboo, and many more. An
international bestseller, "Watching the English" is both an
incisive and hilarious look at the English and their society.
Kate Fox 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 behavior.
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