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.
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> On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 at 12:11, Yohai Hakak <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> 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
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