No need to almost laugh. We have no idea what the source is for, and if it
was a mistake, still no need to almost laugh. We all make them. For
instance, meads coming of age in samoa, popular best seller, 1928. Or more
recently, Graebers history of debt.
On Sat, Jul 20, 2019, 21:37 Mariya Ivancheva, <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Dear Yohai,
>
> almost got to laugh with this request as if anyone wrote anything similar
> e.g. about my native Bulgaria, I'd feel quite orientalised and I imagine
> our British colleagues might feel such overgeneralisations have nothing to
> do with our complexity and micro-difference based discipline - but as that
> type of science has for a long time been the mark of our discipline in its
> Anglo-Saxon core, and these habits die hard, a bit of detournement doesn't
> harm ;)
>
> An anthropology-based look onto the English habits that might address some
> of your questions was written by a colleague, Kate Fox, and became perhaps
> the first (and only?) anthropology popular bestseller:
> https://www.amazon.it/Watching-English-Kate-Fox/dp/0340818867
>
> Best,
> Mariya
>
>
> 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
> > - British manners, for example apologising and saying thank you
> > - minimal bodily contact
> > - anything else you think is uniquely British and might manifest itself
> in
> > every day interactions
> >
> > Thanks a lot in advance,
> >
> > Yohai
> >
> > Dr. Yohai Hakak
> > Senior Lecturer In Social Work
> >
> > Admissions Tutor and Athena Swan SAT Lead
> >
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> > Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, United Kingdom
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