Watching the English: The International Bestseller Revised and Updated - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444787381 ISBN 13: 9781444787382

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Synopsis

In this completely revised and updated edition of international bestseller WATCHING THE ENGLISH, anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and foibles of the English people.

Now with new survey data to add weight to her original fieldwork findings, and more extensive field-research and experiments to back up earlier observations, Kate Fox has deciphered yet more enigmatic behaviour codes, adding new rules, new subcultures, new chapters and over 100 updates. If you're English, this new edition of Kate Fox's acclaimed international bestseller will make you stand back and re-examine everything you take for granted - and if you aren't English you'll finally understand all our peculiar little ways.

WATCHING THE ENGLISH has sold more than half a million copies and has been translated into many languages. Not only a worldwide bestseller, but also a set text for university anthropology courses, WATCHING THE ENGLISH has been widely praised as a revealing and entertaining dissection of the English national character.

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Review

If you like this kind of anthropology (and I do) there is a wealth of it to enjoy in this book. Her observations are acute...fortunately she doesn't write like an anthropologist but like an English woman -with amusement, not solemnity, able to laugh at herself as well as us. (Daily Mail)

Book Description

Kate Fox reveals the hidden rules of English behavior in this completely revised and updated edition of the international bestseller.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• ISBN 10: 1444787381
• ISBN 13: 9781444787382
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English