The Anthropocene Anthropologist: Reflections on Bizarroland
Conrad KottakConrad Kottak, a cultural anthropologist, comments on contemporary issues.
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To Make Anthropology Relevant to the Public, It Has to Be Relevant to the Public
By Conrad Phillip Kottak
Public anthropology must do more than make anthropological knowledge accessible. It must treat publics as people we learn from as well as speak to, and learn from how they actually encounter, use, remember, questio...
Fabricators, Plagiarists, and the Unequal Price of Getting It Wrong
by Conrad Phillip Kottak
In 1987, Senator Gary Hart, the Democratic Presidential frontrunner, denied rumors of womanizing and dared reporters to prove it. They did: photos surfaced of him with Donna Rice (a former model who had once acted...
The Market Is Feeling a Little Off Today
by Conrad Phillip Kottak
I watch the stock market. Not obsessively, but often enough to have become familiar with the language used to describe its daily ups and downs. Or perhaps I should say its ups and offs.
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What’s the Matter with Kids Today?
by Conrad Phillip Kottak
I hadn’t paid much attention to Jonathan Haidt’s commencement address at New York University when he delivered it on May 14, 2026. I knew from news reports that some students had protested his selection as commence...
Even Anthropologists Get Culture Shock
By Conrad Phillip Kottak
This week I am setting aside the Vanderbilt report, though I suspect I will return to it before long. Stephanie Lee’s Chronicle Review interview with Carolyn Rouse, president of the American Anthropological Associa...
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