Professor
Conrad Phillip Kottak
University of Michigan
Anthropologist; Educator
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Anthropology and Archaeology
Elected
2005
Leader of the new ecological anthropology, an approach that considers each society's place in the broader world economy as crucial as its environmental setting. Analyses of state formation in Africa and Madagascar (among the Baganda, Betsileo, and Merina) exemplify this approach. Pioneering anthropological analysis of television (now extended to new media) and its impact in Brazil.
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