The Anthropocene Anthropologist: Reflections on Bizarroland
Conrad KottakConrad Kottak, a cultural anthropologist, comments on contemporary issues.
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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...
A Hit Job with Footnotes Part III: Putting It All Together
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This essay is a synthetic one. It incorporates material I have previously published on Substack, but a great deal of it is new, distributed throughout rather than confined to a single section. Some of the new mater...
The Vampire and the Cabinet Minister
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[Something different this week from three out of four of my most recent posts. Rather than an examination of anthropology as an academic discipline, I now offer an ethnographic account focusing on how the concept of...
Who Speaks for Anthropology?
by Conrad Phillip Kottak
In April 2026 a commission of eminent scholars released a report titled “Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences.” It was chaired by Paul Boghossian, Silver Professor...
A Hit Job with Footnotes, Part II
by Conrad Phillip Kottak
In a recent post, I discussed the April 2026 “Vanderbilt report” on scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Here, I consider three important responses to that report, and I furthur develop my own critiqu...
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