John Curran spent weeks shadowing British people going about their daily business. He was there on the school run, he followed them to the supermarket and lurked in cafés while they sipped cappuccinos. Mr Curran is not a private investigator hoping to uncover a dirty secret but an anthropologist – a social scientist who studies human behaviour through systematic observation – working on behalf of a greeting card company. His task? To discover events in need of commemoration.
約翰?柯倫(John Curran)用了幾周時間跟著一些英國人,觀察他們的日?;顒?。父母去送孩子上學的時候,他跟在旁邊;他跟著他們去超市;他們在咖啡館里喝卡布奇諾咖啡的時候,他也待在旁邊??聜惒皇鞘裁聪胍l掘骯臟秘密的私人調查員,而是替一家賀卡公司工作的人類學家。人類學家是指通過系統觀察研究人類行為的社會科學家。他的工作呢,就是發現需要紀念的事件。