An entertaining anthropological tour through the big answers to
life's little questions. Why do farts evoke laughter and disgust?
Is the aversion to the left hand universal? Are dogs really
humankind's best friend? Why do we tip wait staff but not teachers?
Can you still spot the difference between a Brit and an American by
their teeth? In 'Silent but Deadly: The Underlying Cultural
Patterns of Everyday Behaviour', Kirsten Bell, an anthropologist
who has lived in five countries on four continents-and learned
about cultural gaffes by constantly committing them-places our
everyday behaviours under the microscope. Boldly going where no
anthropologist has gone before, no topic is too small or
insignificant for Bell's attention, whether it's the propensity of
Brits to place their washing machine in the kitchen, the
disinclination of Americans to buy rounds at the pub, Australians'
well-documented obsession with toilet paper, or Canadian
sensibilities around swearing. The kind of book Jared Diamond might
write if he was more concerned with the meanings of bodily
emissions than the collapse of civilizations, 'Silent but Deadly'
deciphers the cultural patterns that underlie our everyday quirks,
foibles, and habits.
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