Fantastic and very perceptive email Sitna, sociologists and political
scientists were writing about this stuff in the first decade of the 21st
century, shame that anthros are so late to the party.
A few points:
The Britishness question does get complicated by the fact that there are
different feelings about nations and national cultures in the different
nations of the UK. There are different takes on being Scottish, Welsh,
English and Northern Irish, some of which are banal, others which are about
positive contacts with neighbours and people in the same place, and the
country-level particularities of life in Scotland, Wales, England and
Northern Ireland. Some people and politicians in Scotland, N. Ireland and
Wales have complicated relationships with the idea of Britishness and the
largest UK, England, and wouldn't see themselves as part of it at all.
There are more interesting studies of these issues in Scotland and Wales
than in England - try Carol Trosset who tried to defined Welsh cultural
concepts.
I have lived in the UK for the past 15 years, I have seen this country
changed during this time, and I can honestly and respectfully say that I
don’t think that people in the UK are being *denied* their own culture.
The social mood has changed considerably since the 1980s in various
informal and formal discussion in England and other parts of the UK. When I
was at school in New Cross, SE London, during 1980s political
multiculturalism, there was a polarisation in my school and in popular
media and political discourse that notions of 'white' and 'English' were
synonymous with 'oppressor' and 'racist', and that post-colonial migration
'cultures' were to be celebrated, i.e. Caribbean, West Africa, SE Asian
(Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi). It was politically and publicly
unspeakable for anyone to admit to being 'English and proud' without
immediately being shot down and called 'racist'. There is no 'healthy' link
to national pride in England, it was the premise of the far right and
BNP/National Front. There is a great literature on 'whiteness' and
'Britishness' in political science and sociology from the early 2000s which
discusses all these issues, in response the New Labour government tried
(unsucessfully?) to legitimate a more inclusive sense of Britishness that
recognised the resentment that had built up among some people in England
(other parts of the UK, not sure), and was inclusive of UK people from
other national origins. See sociologists Steve Fenton and Robin Mann on
'ressentiment'. However badly it was done, New Labour tried to address the
post-imperial/post-multiculturalist issues in the public world, but
ultimately failed as the recession kicked in, lack of jobs, new social
currents, not addressing the roots of the problems - i.e. decades of
underinvestment in the UK regions, unprecedented speed of migration from
the post-A8 countries from 2004 since they joined the EU etc etc. Since the
end of New Labour, and since the recession, austerity, Tories, Trump,
Brexit, Scottish Indy Ref 1, etc, socio-cultural and political currents
have shifted a long way the other way. See political sociologist, Anthony
Heath, on many of these issues from a quantitative sociology perspective -
marvellous person (and my former PhD tutor).
This is fantastic stuff:
I think that as anthropologists, particularly in this country, we really
need to critically think of these issues and of the assumptions we carry
with us. British anthropological tradition, unfortunately, still carries a
very heavy legacy of the colonial past. *The worrying thing is that many
anthropologists don't even seem to be aware of it. Others, such as myself,
have intentionally or unintentionally assimilated it as we have been
trained and socialised into this discipline. We need to question why, by
this time in the history of the discipline, there aren’t many more studies
of British people, in all their diversity, as Yohai has pointed out.*
Although we, as anthropologists, enjoy using language that appears to be
analytical, de-personalised and distant, or praise ourselves for being
critical or 'revolutionary', actually, more often than not, we carry and
keep reproducing very pernicious biases.
If anthropology is to have meaning in the contemporary world, researchers
need to engage with their own cultures/origins and the folks "at home".
Rather than shunning the issues (oh don't study the British), more talented
people are needed who can engage in conversation about cultural relations
to keep the peace and build bridges. I make this point (as an applied
anthropologist/social scientist) working outside academia mostly. Last
November I spent 2 weeks in Kenya as one of seven non-Kenyans working with
the Somali Ministry of Health and 20 male Somali staff and/or development
workers trying to pick NGOs to run medical services in Somalia (paid for by
the UK government). The international contingent were specialists there to
balance the local point of view, and I was the only anthro (rest were
medical professionals and an economist). Staying in a hotel with our Somali
colleagues for 2 weeks, I was the only person from the international group
to feel comfortable and able to talk over dinner night after night with
these young men and answer questions on UK culture. For example, how do
couples in the UK get married, what's the culture? Do they need their
parents permission? Do men ever take more than one wife? Is everybody
Christian? Does everybody get married in a church? Are there many
foreigners in the UK? Are men and women friends outside marriage? How do
people like to celebrate with their community?
One of these young men is now (funding permitting) coming to do his PhD at
the University of Glasgow as he felt that he met a person he could connect
to.
As for the 'elite liberals' and 'hypocrisy within anthropology', I
ultimately left mainstream anthropology due to lack of people within the
discipline I could identify with because I'm physically disabled,
neurologically diverse (dyslexia, dyspraxia) and have PTSD. I was unable to
go overseas to do my PhD fieldwork physically, and because the DWP didn't
allow my welfare benefits to be taken out of the country, and I needed to
keep my carers and accommodation in Oxford, so commuted 30 miles away to
Swindon to do my 'anthropology at home'. The 'liberal middle class camp'
and the 'anthropologist as intrepid explorer' don't speak to me as someone
who feels part of the unsexiest minority going,' the disabled'. There was
no funding for part-time postdocs back then for people with disabilities
who can't work full-time (sorry the best work is only produced by people
who can work full-time). As an anthropologist unable to go overseas and
'rough it' to do fieldwork as part of the development scene, I wrote my
firstbook as an unpaid intern using disability benefit (without telling the
DWP).
Since then, forced in the first instance to work outside academia - I've
used my ability to talk about national and local cultures in a way that a
variety of different types of people in that "great general public" can
relate to do some very rewarding applied work. I've worked on assignments
such as improving the social science basis of the health impact study of
HS2 and a nuclear power station in Wales, developing a social science
framework for helping city builders design cities that promote social
networks and cohesion in places where people need help to cope with climate
change, and helping the UK government with the "human" and "cultural"
dimension of lots of projects on sustainable cities, natural resource
management, poverty reduction, global health and the exclusion of
vulnerable groups and women. I'm very glad to know that my anthropologist
skills have helped to make a few concrete changes for the better in
people's lives.
Hoping there is some kind of message in here somewhere.
Cheerio,
Cathy
On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 at 11:58, QUIROZ-URIA, SITNA <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Dear Cathy and others in this conversation,
>
> I am usually a quiet witness to these threats and dislike responding
> publicly, but I think that you raise very important issues in your emails
> below, and I would like to make a couple of comments. I quote from your
> emails:
>
> When I spent 5 years talking weekly to members of the
> > "white English" population of Swindon about this subject, many were
> > frankly fed of being told by whom they perceived as the 'right on
> > brigade', i.e. politicians, academics, people writing in the Guardian
> > etc that they had no culture, but it was okay for BME groups to have
> > er culture. If we look at phenomena like Brexit, Trump, the shift to
> > more people voting for far right parties in Europe, it is no
> > coincidence that among the many reasons why some of the voting public
> > are turning to these options, is a perception that some people with
> > these inclinations hold that they're sick of being told they can't
> > have 'their own culture' whilst minority and marginalised groups can,
> > and that they want to feel front and centre in their countries of origin
> again.
> "not everybody who likes to identify with their neighbours or the way that
> life is lived across a nation is intentionally racist or wants to exclude
> others"
>
>
> I think that this hits the nail on the head and touches a very sensitive
> nerve on the current political situation in the UK. I think that as
> anthropologists, we have the responsibility to stop and carefully reflect
> on what is going on here, and on the feelings of the people that have been
> captured here. I have listened to this same argument many times in the past
> three years, and it is very tempting to keep reproducing it. This is what
> has divided this country between remainers and leavers. I have lived in
> the UK for the past 15 years, I have seen this country changed during this
> time, and I can honestly and respectfully say that I don’t think that
> people in the UK are being *denied* their own culture. The issue, from my
> point of view, is predominantly a matter of class and how this plays out in
> relation to definitions of national identity and how different sectors of
> the population embody or react to this idea of being British -whatever that
> might mean. Second, there is no doubt that no matter how different sectors
> define or perceive 'Britishness', this idea has been tightly linked to a
> notion of empire, which is currently crumbling, and this phenomenon is
> producing a generalised crisis of identity that has crystallised on
> 'Brexit'. This idea of 'Britishness' no matter how diverse due to its
> regional or class elements (which by the way it is not exceptional of this
> society, although people tend to present it as such), carries a sense of
> nostalgia for a glorious past of the Victorian era, and a certain sense of
> superiority that obviously manifest itself quite differently among
> different sectors of the population. This sense of identity currently
> appears to be under threat with the loss of British influence in the world,
> an increase of immigration, etc., all the things that we already know.
> Nonetheless, I find fascinating the different reactions that the different
> sectors in this country have towards this threat. I agree that in many
> ways, the liberal class in this country, politicians, academics, etc., the
> so-called 'Guardian readers', tend to adopt a self-righteous and high-brow
> attitude towards the working class and those who voted to leave. Liberals
> tend to justify their rightful position by associating themselves with the
> 'oppressed minorities', immigrants, refugees, etc., while adopting a rather
> exaggerated self-deprecating attitude towards certain elements of
> 'Britishness', such as the national anthem. They defend multi-culturalism,
> but are very often blinded by their own liberal assumptions that are
> consistently used as a measuring stick to assess, often judge, and impose
> on non-western others, or by adopting a 'saviour' attitude that ultimately
> disempowers people. In contrast, more conservative sectors react against
> this position by either saying that they are being denied their right to
> have their culture (without realising that this is actually what
> predominates! But obviously one cannot see what it is the norm), or by
> retracting and adopting an insular position, such as voting for Brexit,
> isolating themselves in their communities, being suspicious about
> foreigners, you name it. But this position equally carries a sense of
> superiority, like the 'well intentioned' Liberal one. I say this as
> someone who could be classified in this society as a member of the 'BAME'
> group. Nonetheless, I have made a strong effort to fully integrate into
> this society, meaning that I intentionally don’t gravitate towards 'my
> crowd', and make a conscious effort to mix and mingle with the predominant
> regional culture. But, throughout the years, I have seen how, on different
> sides of the spectrum, the common denominator has been a certain sense of
> superiority and pride, although expressed in different ways.
>
> I think that as anthropologists, particularly in this country, we really
> need to critically think of these issues and of the assumptions we carry
> with us. British anthropological tradition, unfortunately, still carries a
> very heavy legacy of the colonial past. The worrying thing is that many
> anthropologists don't even seem to be aware of it. Others, such as myself,
> have intentionally or unintentionally assimilated it as we have been
> trained and socialised into this discipline. We need to question why, by
> this time in the history of the discipline, there aren’t many more studies
> of British people, in all their diversity, as Yohai has pointed out.
> Although we, as anthropologists, enjoy using language that appears to be
> analytical, de-personalised and distant, or praise ourselves for being
> critical or 'revolutionary', actually, more often than not, we carry and
> keep reproducing very pernicious biases. After all, we all have been cut
> from the same cloth. We embody and keep legitimising the tradition of a
> discipline that has a particular historical legacy tied with empire in the
> UK and France, as well as other countries in Europe, and with imperialism
> in the US. I agree with Peter that we need to be very careful with how we
> use the concept of culture, especially in these current times. It has been
> popularly used to essentialise others and to adopt extreme positions. We,
> academically, cannot fall into the same trap.
>
> With all best wishes,
>
> Sitna
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Anthropology-Matters forum mailing list <
> [log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Cathy Baldwin
> Sent: 22 July 2019 09:48
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: British cultural code
>
> This is all true, but not everybody who likes to identify with their
> neighbours or the way that life is lived across a nation is intentionally
> racist or wants to exclude others. Anthropological studies tend to focus on
> the 'extremes' of potential including and excluding. The danger is in
> extremes but this is true of all types of group formation, i.e. hobby
> groups, political groups, groups in the school playground, regional
> geographic groups, groups based on shared sexuality or age....
> One can neither deny the human urge to seek a sense of belonging and
> identify with groups and feel secure and familiar from what is shared, and
> proselytise that it's always a force for evil, nor recommend it as the best
> mode of human organisation.
> Perhaps anthropologists are extraordinary or extraterrestrial humans who
> are devoid of the urge to belong, feel safe, identify, have a set of people
> they relate to through common ways and give it a name - but most members of
> populations aren't.
>
>
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 at 09:14, Peter Cave <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > I think Cathy Baldwin's well made point shows precisely why the
> > concept of 'culture' should be abandoned, and illustrates what I said
> > about its being used to include some and exclude others. As Yohai said
> > in his post, it is problematic to make generalisations about the
> > 'culture' of peoples in Asia, Africa, Latin America, etc. It is just
> > as problematic to make generalisations about the 'culture' of groups
> > anywhere, including the group that an individual considers herself or
> > himself to belong to. Saying 'I am an X, and doing Y is our culture',
> > is going beyond just saying 'doing Y is something many people who
> > consider themselves X do'; it is saying 'doing Y is a very well
> > established aspect of being X, and not just well established but
> > valuable enough to be considered legitimate and a marker of this
> > group'. It is a way of making a claim that a group is cohesive and
> > distinctive. It is understandable why vulnerable minority groups might
> > want to do this, but it still tends to act to homogenize, reify, and
> > threaten the autonomy of less powerful individuals within the group
> > who might not necessarily want to do what others are doing; while in
> > the hands of more powerful groups, it is a way of asserting the
> > primacy of certain practices and norms, and excluding other practices,
> > and people who are seen as outside one's own group ('they don't share
> > our culture'; 'this is British/German/Japanese culture, that isn't', 'we
> need to maintain traditional English/Japanese culture').
> >
> > Peter Cave
> > Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies
> > SALC, University of Manchester
> > Samuel Alexander Building
> > Oxford Road
> > Manchester M13 9PL
> > United Kingdom
> > Tel: +44 (0)161 275 3195
> > www.manchester.ac.uk/research/peter.cave/
> >
> > ------------------------------
> > *From:* Cathy Baldwin [[log in to unmask]]
> > *Sent:* 21 July 2019 22:26
> > *To:* Peter Cave
> > *Cc:* [log in to unmask]
> > *Subject:* Re: British cultural code
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I think the danger of abandoning the concept of 'culture' and using
> > other terms to describe er common patterns of behaviour, thought,
> > practices, norms, expressions etc within a geographic area is that the
> > anthropologist become the elite spokesperson who 'denies' what some
> > other folks believes exist and they identify with. And this is just as
> > dangerous as 'reification' or using culture narratives to create
> > imaginary boundaries and exclude some people from this cultural
> > entity/centre. When I spent 5 years talking weekly to members of the
> > "white English" population of Swindon about this subject, many were
> > frankly fed of being told by whom they perceived as the 'right on
> > brigade', i.e. politicians, academics, people writing in the Guardian
> > etc that they had no culture, but it was okay for BME groups to have
> > er culture. If we look at phenomena like Brexit, Trump, the shift to
> > more people voting for far right parties in Europe, it is no
> > coincidence that among the many reasons why some of the voting public
> > are turning to these options, is a perception that some people with
> > these inclinations hold that they're sick of being told they can't
> > have 'their own culture' whilst minority and marginalised groups can,
> > and that they want to feel front and centre in their countries of origin
> again.
> > Look at the writing of Michael Skey at UEA - he writes very powerfully
> > on this subject.
> >
> > Surely the answer is common sense and balance when writing about such
> > subjects?
> > Cheers,
> > Cathy
> >
> > On Sun, 21 Jul 2019 at 22:10, Peter Cave <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Dear Yohai
> >>
> >> Your points are well made. However, to my mind, as an anthropologist
> >> who mainly researches Japan, what you say points to the reason why it
> >> would be better to stop using the concept of culture altogether, and
> >> certainly why it would be better not to make generalisations about
> >> 'cultures' in Asia, Africa, Latin America, or anywhere else. One of
> >> the spurs for my own abandonment of the concept of 'culture' is
> >> precisely that I find it not only unhelpful but deeply misleading
> >> when trying to understand the country I know best and grew up in,
> >> England. I much prefer more precise terms such as 'practice',
> >> 'assumption', 'expectation' etc, which do not entail the idea of a
> >> (mythical) whole (which mythical 'whole' inevitably becomes reified and
> used as a way of including some and excluding others).
> >>
> >> Peter
> >>
> >> Peter Cave
> >> Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies
> >> SALC, University of Manchester
> >> Samuel Alexander Building
> >> Oxford Road
> >> Manchester M13 9PL
> >> United Kingdom
> >> Tel: +44 (0)161 275 3195
> >> www.manchester.ac.uk/research/peter.cave/
> >>
> >> ________________________________________
> >> From: The Anthropology-Matters forum mailing list [
> >> [log in to unmask]] on behalf of ana bravo [
> >> [log in to unmask]]
> >> Sent: 21 July 2019 20:14
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: Re: British cultural code
> >>
> >> Hi Yohai,
> >>
> >> In case it helps, the book Bravo-Moreno, A. 2006. "Migration, Gender
> >> and National Identity: Spanish Migrant Women in London". Oxford Peter
> >> Lang, is based on my PhD thesis which is an ethnography. Some of the
> chapters are:
> >> “NARRATIVES OF ENGLISHNESS AND FOREIGNNESS, WORKING CLASS WOMEN”, and
> >> “NARRATIVES OF ENGLISHNESS AND FOREIGNNESS: MIDDLE AND UPPER MIDDLE
> >> CLASS WOMEN”. “In exploring national and gender identities the terms
> >> "Spanishness" and "Englishness" are utilised. These terms define -
> >> for the purposes of this study - what women view as characteristic of
> >> Spanish and English societies and ways of life, respectively. This is
> >> not to say that there is an essence to the concept of "Spanishness"
> >> or "Englishness". The meaning of those concepts is as varied as
> >> respondents' perceptions of what identifies each socio-cultural
> setting” (2006: 16).
> >>
> >> Best wishes,
> >>
> >> Ana
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sunday, 21 July 2019, 15:40:23 BST, Cathy Baldwin <
> >> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Try Danny Miller at UCL, I don't know if there is more in the
> >> anthropology of material culture in the UK, I would have thought so.
> >>
> >> On Sun, 21 Jul 2019 at 15:08, Cathy Baldwin <
> >> [log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > It's complicated in the UK because there are 4 constituent nations
> >> > with their own nationalisms, and strong regional identities, some
> >> > of which involve rejecting notions of nationalism as defined by the
> >> > political centre, i.e. the UK parliament in London, England. what I
> >> > found in my
> >> PhD
> >> > on notions of Britishness among several UK ethnic groups was that
> >> > white working class and middle class people in Swindon, SW England,
> >> > largely identified with a citizenship based 'British national
> >> > identity' if they were on the left of the political spectrum, and
> >> > would identify as
> >> British
> >> > over English, but also culturally English or something else....half
> >> > Irish/half English, Cumbrian, etc. Folks from this demographic,
> >> > more on
> >> the
> >> > right of the political spectrum tended to look at themselves as
> >> culturally
> >> > English first, and British second or not at all. Many thought there
> >> > was
> >> a
> >> > British culture and made many references to their
> >> > relatives/experiences
> >> in
> >> > the other nations of the UK, i.e Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland.
> >> >
> >> > There is some great social science work on UK cultures but largely
> >> > not from anthropologists. Look at Michael Skey, a media
> >> > ethnographer and
> >> social
> >> > scientist at UEA:
> >> >
> >> https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/communication-media/staff/michael-sk
> >> ey/
> >> >
> >> > - Skey, Michael (2017/2011) *National Belonging & Everyday Life*,
> >> > Palgrave MacMillan
> >> > -
> >> > - Skey, Michael (2013) Why do nations matter? *British Journal of
> >> > Sociology, *64(1): 81-98
> >> > - Skey, Michael & Antonsich, Marco (Eds) (2017) *Everyday
> Nationhood:
> >> > Theorising Belonging, Culture & Identity After Banal Nationalism*,
> >> > Palgrave MacMillan
> >> >
> >> > Many anthropologists of Britain won't play ball, aren't
> >> > interested, or are too busy generalising about African, Asian,
> >> > Pacific and Latin
> >> American
> >> > cultures. Sad to see that 8 years after my PhD thesis, this is
> >> > still the case.
> >> >
> >> > My PhD: Locating Britishness? Mediating Identity, Ethnicity,
> >> > Community
> >> and
> >> > Place in Multi-Ethnic Swindon (2011) was done at the Institute of
> >> > Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. It had to
> >> > be examined
> >> by 2
> >> > sociologists from outside Oxford as there was nobody in
> >> > anthropology nationally that was suitable. They were great
> sociologists.
> >> >
> >> > Shame that with all these wonderful reflexivity which has long been
> >> trendy
> >> > in anthro theorising, that many UK anthros don't hold the mirror up
> >> > to themselves and their own practices by refusing to acknowledge
> >> > that their own have a culture ;-)
> >> >
> >> > Cathy
> >> >
> >> > On Sun, 21 Jul 2019 at 14:50, Yohai Hakak <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Hello all,
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks again for the many responses and helpful suggestions.
> >> >>
> >> >> My own summary of this email trail is as follows:
> >> >>
> >> >> 1) Quite a few weren't happy with the intention to explore British
> >> culture
> >> >> and suggested a more regional perspective, which I agree with.
> >> Exploring
> >> >> cultural traits in relation Britain was seen as questionable, not
> >> >> a serious scholarly pursuit.
> >> >>
> >> >> 2) Many of the ethnographic studies suggested focus on marginal
> >> >> and minority groups within the UK (travellers, BME, working class
> >> >> or rural
> >> >> communities) and very little exploring white middle class Britain
> >> >> (or
> >> any
> >> >> of its regions).
> >> >>
> >> >> 3) From the many references to Kate Fox's Watching the English,
> >> >> which I enjoyed reading, I infer that:
> >> >>
> >> >> a. She's a gifted author and had many satisfied readers
> >> >>
> >> >> b. There are almost no alternatives
> >> >>
> >> >> At the same time, it was mentioned in several responses that she's
> >> >> not
> >> an
> >> >> academic scholar and doesn't have a PhD. Other references
> >> >> suggested - which I look forward reading - relating to mainstream
> >> >> Britain, are also not regarded as 'proper' academic writing.
> >> >> Somehow 'proper' academics don't write about the topic.
> >> >>
> >> >> 4) It is intriguing to see that in an anthropological mailing list
> >> where
> >> >> studies are regularly shared in which generalisations are made in
> >> relation
> >> >> to endless numbers of Asian, African and South-American cultures,
> >> >> the possibility of applying the cultural lens to British society
> >> >> raises so many objections or reservations and that the
> >> >> anthropological studies of
> >> white
> >> >> middle class British culture are so rare and practically don't exist.
> >> This
> >> >> non existence of white middle class British culture as an object
> >> >> for anthropological research renders it invisible.
> >> >> During my own anthropological training, I learnt about the Crisis
> >> >> of Representation during the 1980s that was followed by a shift to
> >> >> doing 'Anthropology at Home' as was also mentioned by Cathy
> >> >> Baldwin, but this might relate more to the American anthropological
> tradition?!
> >> >>
> >> >> 5) All of this leaves me wondering whether this might be just
> >> >> another
> >> case
> >> >> of how being invisible serves the interest of the powerful. We all
> >> >> know that the assumption that men have no gender, and white people
> >> >> have no
> >> race
> >> >> is rife among these groups, so maybe it shouldn't be a surprise if
> >> >> a similar assumption that white middle class Brits have no
> >> >> particular culture is also common?
> >> >>
> >> >> Happy to be corrected.
> >> >>
> >> >> Best wishes,
> >> >> Yohai
> >> >>
> >> >> *Dr. Yohai Hakak*
> >> >> Senior Lecturer In Social Work
> >> >>
> >> >> Admissions Tutor and Athena Swan SAT Lead
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> >> >>
> >> >> *Brunel University London*
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> >> theme)
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> >> >> Sciences
> >> >>
> >> >> Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, United Kingdom
> >> >> *T* +44(0)1895 274000
> >> >> *www.brunel.ac.uk* <http://www.brunel.ac.uk/>
> >> >>
> >> >> http://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/yohai-hakak
> >> >>
> >> >> On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 7:18 AM Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov <
> >> >> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> > a very interesting study that touches on the issue of the
> >> >> > history of English manners etc, is actually not in anthropology
> >> >> > but in the
> >> history
> >> >> of
> >> >> > science. I highly recommend this:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Steven Shapin. A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science
> >> >> > in Seventeenth-Century England. Chicago: University of Chicago
> >> >> > Press,
> >> 1995.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 at 12:11, Yohai Hakak
> >> >> > > <[log in to unmask]>
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > >> Hello all,
> >> >> > >>
> >> >> > >> I am looking for recommendations on literature exploring key
> >> British
> >> >> > >> cultural characteristics in daily interactions such as:
> >> >> > >>
> >> >> > >> - the British understatement
> >> >> > >> - the tendency to avoid direct talk or the difficulty in
> >> >> > >> calling a
> >> >> > spade 'a
> >> >> > >> spade'
> >> >> > >> - queuing
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