The Oxford Tribe

When Peter Rudiak-Gould was twenty-four years old, he left his native America and sought out a legendary city, a millennium in age and the color of gold. This was Oxford: a place as celebrated and coveted as Bali Ha’i or Shangri-La – and, with its unscalable walls, forbidden gardens, and exacting admissions criteria, nearly as inaccessible, as well. But Peter had a golden ticket. He arrived as an undercover anthropologist, disguised as a graduate student of anthropology: a party crasher cra...