Description
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.