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. T...
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.
TBH The English have so many in common with the Chinese: the social dis-ease, the hypocrisy, the politeness etc. But how can they utter these to the best is what we are lacking... in addition, the qui...TBH The English have so many in common with the Chinese: the social dis-ease, the hypocrisy, the politeness etc. But how can they utter these to the best is what we are lacking... in addition, the quirky humour is what I fancy about the English, which sets them in and out of what is happening. An overall very informative book and fun to read!(展开)
关于该书的内容和可圈可点之处我不想多说，但是阅读过程中让我对译者却产生了不少质疑。 关于书名，原名《Watching English——The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour》，译名《英国人的言行潜规则》（三联书店版）。在这里，English是不是可以跟英国人画上等号？ 严格说来...
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I'm half way through Kate Fox's renowned book about Englishness Watching the English. It's a delightful read: clever, amusing, and very very English. I've been in London long enough to realise that the English are, not surprisingly, a rather restrained, ref...
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Another helpful class-indicator is the siting of what Americans would call your ‘brag wall’. In which room of your house do you display prestigious awards you have won, or photographs of yourself shaking hands with famous people? If you are middle-middle ...
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0 有用 勤劳的小蜜蜂 2009-06-23 15:02:08
笑死了。。不行了 英国旅行生存必备系列
1 有用 Wingsu 2012-11-22 11:34:49
应该好好解释下为毛外面那么大雨他们都不打伞！
0 有用 Doyle Frenger 2013-09-09 13:32:57
TBH The English have so many in common with the Chinese: the social dis-ease, the hypocrisy, the politeness etc. But how can they utter these to the best is what we are lacking... in addition, the qui... TBH The English have so many in common with the Chinese: the social dis-ease, the hypocrisy, the politeness etc. But how can they utter these to the best is what we are lacking... in addition, the quirky humour is what I fancy about the English, which sets them in and out of what is happening. An overall very informative book and fun to read! (展开)
1 有用 7_11 2013-12-30 22:58:58
写得还挺一板一眼，虽然夹带了不少私人吐槽，读起来没有《天真的人类学家》那么欢快。读后觉得British hypocrisy和anxiety有时还挺萌的。但他们出于social dis-ease而产生的嘟嘟囔囔真心是啊啊啊啊一只标准傲娇！
1 有用 amstel 2016-05-05 15:39:57
interesting