Academic Tribes

by Hazard Adams

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252060008
• ISBN13: 9780252060007
• Release Date: November 1987
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"