Academic Tribes

Häftad, Engelska, 1987

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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). Hazard Adams' parody of anthropological analysis describes 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. This first paperback edition also includes a new preface looking back at the decade since the book's original publication and an appendix that adds three relevant essays.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1987-11-01
Mått140 x 203 x 18 mm
Vikt227 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor200
Upplaga2
FörlagUniversity of Illinois Press
ISBN9780252060007

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Preface to the Second Edition viiPreface to the First Edition ix1 A Primer of Academic Politics 12 Stereotypics 313 Tribes: Les Purs et les Appliques 634 Rites de Passage: Coming of age in Academe 775 The Rhythm of the Year: Solar Rituals 976 Styles and the Decay of Style 1097 Bureaucriticism: What's Wrong and Why It Isn't Likely to Be Fixed 1218 Confessio Amantis 139A Triptych of Appendixes 1451) A Political Primer for the Chair of English: Form and Content 147b) How Departments Commit Suicide 161c) Definition and/as Survival 179

"A delicious chowder of quips and ironies. One may have heard individual lines at faculty cocktail parties, but listening to all the disparate voices of the university together, one realizes how much we sound like a thousand Franz Kafkas trying to sing a madrigal."--Chronicle of Higher Education "An enjoyable description (and vivisection!) of the various people in Academe. Essential for anyone who extracts his livelihood from the forests primeval of Academe and who periodically suffers fits on the meaning of it all."--Choice