| Academic Tribes 2nd Ed Contributor(s): Adams, Hazard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252060008 ISBN-13: 9780252060007 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $21.78 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1987 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Higher - Humor |
| Dewey: 378.73 |
| LCCN: 87019051 |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.48" W x 8.26" (0.57 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In The Academic Tribes, an English professor who has survived stints as a dean and a vice-chancellor "takes a gentle, satiric sideswipe at academia, its foibles, follies, and myths" (ALA Booklist). This parody of anthropological analysis allows Hazard Adams to describe the principles and antinomies of academic politics, campus stereotypes, the various tribes divided by discipline, the agonies accompanying each stage on the way to full professorship, and, of course, the power struggle between faculties and academic administrators. For this first paperback edition, Adams has written a new preface, in which he looks back at the decade since the book was originally published, and has included an appendix of three relevant essays that appeared since the original publication. |