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.
约翰•柯伦(John Curran)用了几周时间跟着一些英国人，观察他们的日常活动。父母去送孩子上学的时候，他跟在旁边；他跟着他们去超市；他们在咖啡馆里喝卡布奇诺咖啡的时候，他也待在旁边。柯伦不是什么想要发掘肮脏秘密的私人调查员，而是替一家贺卡公司工作的人类学家。人类学家是指通过系统观察研究人类行为的社会科学家。他的工作呢，就是发现需要纪念的事件。
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