Look at Sue Hyatt’s work on a working class British community
Professor Ruth Mandel
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UCL
> On 21 Jul 2019, at 08:50, 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
>
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> On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 7:18 AM Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov <
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>> 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:
>>>>
>>>> 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
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