Conrad Kottak
Affiliated Programs:
Professor, Anthropology, University of Michigan.
Ph.D., Columbia University
Professor Kottak has done ethnographic field work in Brazil, Madagascar, and the United States. His general interests are in the processes by which local cultures are incorporated--and resist incorporation--into larger systems. Recent work includes an investigation of how middle class families draw on various media in planning, managing, and evaluating their choices with respect to competing demands of work and family.
Recent Publications
Books
Descartes, L., and Kottak, Conrad. 2009. Media and middle class moms : images and realities of work and family. New York: Routledge.
Kottak, Conrad. 2009. Cultural anthropology. Boston: McGraw-Hill Higher Education. (13th Edition)
Kottak, Conrad. 2008. Anthropology : The Exploration of Human Diversity. Boston: McGraw Hill Higher Education. (12th Edition) Abstract.
Kottak, Conrad. 2006. Assault on paradise : the globalization of a little community in Brazil, 4th ed. Boston: McGraw Hill.
Kottak, Conrad. 2005. Mirror for Humanity: A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. Boston: McGraw Hill. (5th Edition) Abstract.
Kottak, Conrad. 2005. Window on humanity : a concise introduction to anthropology. Boston: McGraw Hill.
Kottak, Conrad. 2004. Physical Anthropology and Archaeology. Boston: McGraw-Hill.
Kottak, Conrad. 2002. Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity and Cultural Anthropology. Boston: McGraw-Hill. (9th Edition)
Kottak, Conrad, and Kathryn A. Koazitis. 2002. On Being Different: Diversity and Multiculturalism in the North American Mainstream. Boston: McGraw-Hill. Abstract.
Journal Articles
Kottak, Conrad. 2004. "An anthropological take on sustainable development: A comparative study of change." Human Organization, 63(4): 501-510.
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