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Kate Fox

@KateFoxWatching

Anthropologist; author of Watching the English; Associate Member, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford.

 Oxford
Joined May 2013
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Ever wondered about the psychology behind rituals? In his new book, The Ritual Animal, Harvey Whitehouse explores how different modes of ritual performance have influenced the evolution of social complexity. Buy your copy here: global.oup.com/academic/prod…
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Wow. Really overwhelmed with the response to my story about the real 'Lord of the Flies'. So so happy that this extraordinary tale is finally - after 50 years! - becoming famous. Here's a thread (with pictures!) on how I found the 'boys' three years ago /1 theguardian.com/books/2020/m…
The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months

The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months

When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently to William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman

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What do you get if you remix Doughnut Economics with Extinction Rebellion? Find out in this powerful & pithy new book. I’m dead proud to have contributed a chapter and I can’t wait to read the rest - an amazing array of authors. @ExtinctionR
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Analysis | The day a million species are announced to be on brink of extinction, U.S. says melting ice creates ‘new opportunities for trade’ washingtonpost.com/world/201…
Analysis | The day a million species are announced to be on brink of extinction, U.S. says melting...

Analysis | The day a million species are announced to be on brink of extinction, U.S. says melting...

“I feel like I got a slap in the face,” one official observer said.

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The Government is planning to fund new schools that have 100% religious selection, with thousands of pupils being turned away simply because they don’t share their local school’s religion. This is discrimination. Click the link, and write to your MP today! humanism.org.uk/campaigns/va…
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Replying to @AdamRutherford @AngelaDSaini
Come to my TED Talk, I mean Voltaire Lecture for @Humanists_UK where I will be dissecting the history of racial pseudo-science, and its return to public life. bit.ly/2GjZhVv
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We've teamed up with over 180 of our patrons as well as leading political activists, trade unionists, religious leaders, and campaigners to make a high-profile intervention on faith schools in today's Sunday Times. thetimes.co.uk/article/celeb…

Celebrities warn new single-faith schools will split society

Celebrities such as Stephen Fry and David Baddiel have united with leading thinkers to fight a plan for a new wave of single-faith schools, saying it “fundamentally threatens social cohesion”.The...

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Just published - how I believe our project may help people to understand what a smarphone is.
The Conversation (@ConversationUK) profile pictureThe Conversation@ConversationUK9 Jan 2019
Philip Pullman can help us understand what smartphones are doing to people, anthropologist writes. bit.ly/2CW4ceK
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This woman is such a badass it’s unreal. teapaw.org/rickwasmith/status/985…
Rick W. A. Smith (@rickwasmith) profile pictureRick W. A. Smith@rickwasmith14 Apr 2018
.@JenniferRaff presents paleogenomic analysis of population history in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands, Texas. #AAPA2018
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I feel the same way about constant headlines on smartphone `addiction' - is it addiction to gaming, to chatting with friends, to driving with maps, to reading the news or a novel, to watching football? What exactly is smartphone addiction ? teapaw.org/aliciablumross/status/…
Alicia Blum-Ross (@aliciablumross) profile pictureAlicia Blum-Ross@aliciablumross28 Feb 2018
Why the very idea of ‘screen time’ is muddled and misguided blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4di… via @Livingstone_S @NKucirkova
Why the very idea of ‘screen time’ is muddled and misguided - Parenting for a Digital Future

Why the very idea of ‘screen time’ is muddled and misguided - Parenting for a Digital Future

When it comes to screen time, 'one-size-fits-all' solutions don’t work when they are taken too literally; they don’t allow for the diverse conditions of real people’s lives. In this post Sonia...

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When is it better NOT to save a life? Henry Marsh, who won the @englishpen Ackerley Prize last night, in this wk's NS newstatesman.com/culture/201…
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Psst, if you would like a signed copy of DO NO HARM, Henry Marsh signed a stack @Watermark_Books. Act fast though!
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We love WATCHING THE ENGLISH and here's @KateFoxWatching signing copies of it at our party! Get one!
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Don't forget it's our 3rd Birthday Party this Weds! Lots of brilliant authors will be attending! Pop it in your diary
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We're SO looking forward to meeting @KateFoxWatching on Wednesday 1st April! Join us from 6.30pm.
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Watching the English by @KateFoxWatching is a shop favourite so we're delighted that Kate will be signing copies of it here next Wednesday!
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I'm pretty thrilled that Henry Marsh will be @Watermark_Books next Weds from 6.30pm signing DO NO HARM.
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RT @haujournal: Bronisław Malinowski on #ethnography. #anthropology
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Towards a human economy. Interview with Keith Hart in India's Economic & Political Weekly epw.in/interview/towards-hum…
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We should have said that our recommended book of the day is by @KateFoxWatching!
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