The Anthropocene Anthropologist: Reflections on Bizarroland
Conrad KottakConrad Kottak, a cultural anthropologist, comments on contemporary issues.
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From YouTube to the House of Atreus
By Conrad Phillip Kottak
Lately I’ve been watching short dramas on YouTube. I’m not sure why they’ve become so compelling. They’re often melodramatic and wildly improbable (let us hope), and their families contain an extraordinary number o...
The Lecture Hadn’t Changed; Its Reception Had
by Conrad Phillip Kottak
For decades, I gave essentially the same lecture about race in my introductory anthropology course at the University of Michigan. I compared racial classification in the United States with what Marvin Harris and I...
Socrates, Writing, and AI
by Conrad Phillip Kottak
This is a follow-up to my post of September 19, 2026.
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Watch Your Language
by Conrad Phillip Kottak
When I posted an earlier version of this piece about a year ago, Democrats were in weaker political shape than they are now. With the midterm elections less than six weeks away, that post seems worth reexamining. A...
Knowing Enough to Argue with AI
by Conrad Phillip Kottak
A year and a half ago, I was lying in bed, iPad in hand, thoroughly sick of the news. My grandson, a medical student, and my son, an anthropologist, had both encouraged me to subscribe to ChatGPT Plus. I had alread...
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