Conrad Phillip Kottak holds a doctorate from Columbia University and is chairman of the graduate program in anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is author of two major introductory textbooks, Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity and Cultural Anthropology, and an advanced study, The Past in the Present: History, Ecology, and Cultural Variation in Highland Madagascar.
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