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Watching the English: The hidden rules of English behaviour

Speaker: Kate Fox
19 June 2004

What is Englishness? Anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and foibles of the English people. Drawing on over a decade of close observation, interviews, surveys and her own painfully embarrassing field-experiments, she reveals the hidden rules that govern English behaviour - rules we obey without thinking – and what these tell us about our national character.

Kate Fox, a social anthropologist, is Co-Director of the Social Issues Research Centre in Oxford. Following an erratic education in England, America, Ireland and France, she studied anthropology and philosophy at Cambridge. Her work involves monitoring and assessing global socio-cultural trends, and has included research, books, reports and broadcasts on many aspects of human behaviour, including drinking, flirting, body image, pub behaviour, gossip, violence, mobile phones, the effects of health scares, the psychology of smell and the meaning of chips. She is also a consultant on the prevention and management of violence, and co-author, with Dr Peter Marsh, of Drinking and Public Disorder. Her most recent book is The Racing Tribe - a study of a very English subculture.

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