Whither academic village?

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>On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, John McCreery wrote:
>> A few
>> years later when I was a visiting instructor at Berkeley, I noticed how
>> economic implosion had turned the department into a fair approximation of
>> George Foster's peasant village with a culture controlled by the image of the
>> limited good. Factionalism was rife, and conversation seemed to consist
largely
>> of academic equivalents of treasure tales and witchcraft accusations.
>>
>> Has anyone had a similar experience?
>>
>> John McCreery
>>
>John, I'd suggest you read Melvin Williams' book "An ethnographic
>Village" which is a study of precisely this sort of thing.
>
>Mike
>
>Michael Ashkenazi
>mashkena@acs.ucalgary.ca
>
>
How to order the book?

Jim Martin

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