About the Book: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.Table of Contents: Preface to the Second Edition vii Preface to the First Edition ix 1 A Primer of Academic Politics 1 2 Stereotypics 31 3 Tribes: Les Purs et les Appliques 63 4 Rites de Passage: Coming of age in Academe 77 5 The Rhythm of the Year: Solar Rituals 97 6 Styles and the Decay of Style 109 7 Bureaucriticism: What’s Wrong and Why It Isn’t Likely to Be Fixed 121 8 Confessio Amantis 139 A Triptych of Appendixes 145 1) A Political Primer for the Chair of English: Form and Content 147 b) How Departments Commit Suicide 161 c) Definition and/as Survival 179