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

Fox, Kate

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 144478739X ISBN 13: 9781444787399

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2014

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:

Kate Fox's brilliant idea is to treat the British as another tribe...where she's particularly astute is in examining the exact pattern of clichés. Any study of the English must cover our class obsession, and Fox deals with the subject thoroughly. (Harry Mount, author of How England Made the English)

An absolutely brilliant examination of English culture. (Jennifer Saunders The Times)

Her observations are acute . . . 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)

Brilliant and hilarious (Grayson Perry The Vanity of Small Differences)

She is the only popular UK anthropologist of substance since the 1970s. (Jeremy MacClancy Professor of Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University)

This is an entertaining, clever book. Do read it and then pass it on. (Daily Telegraph)

She is smart . . . raises some serious issues . . . poses a challenge to British social anthropology that we need to meet . . . This book should enter into professional discussions of the future of anthropology . . . Fox has astutely lined herself up to take a leading position in a rethink of the discipline's object, theory and method. (Professor Keith Hart Anthropology Today)

I read it cover to cover in a few days . . . very sharp and witty prose. It really is funny - the sort of humour that makes you laugh out loud on your own! (Martin Parr Vice)

Hilarious and insightful (Daniel Miller Professor of Material Culture, University College London)

She has not only compiled a comprehensive list of English qualities, she has examined them in depth . . . A delightful read. (Sunday Times)

Book Description:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 144478739X
• ISBN 13: 9781444787399
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 528