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African Affairs 101:213-229 (2002)
© 2002 The Royal African Society

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Globalization and the future of anthropology

Jean-Loup Amselle

Anthropologist at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Globalization of the world's financial systems in particular has given rise to an extensive literature on other aspects of the phenomenon, including its effects on culture and political behaviour. This article argues that globalization itself is not as new as is sometimes supposed, not least in that even the world's most isolated societies have always been constituent, permeable, parts of wider networks. Hence, the notion that anthropology is challenged by globalization because of its tradition of viewing local societies as ‘closed’, to be viewed by specialists in the role of participant observers, is to forget that anthropology, before the influence of Malinkowski, was itself once comparative and diffusionist. The discipline needs simply to recover its earlier bearings and to rethink an emphasis that made a far too emphatic distinction between the universalizing force of the ‘modern’ and the isolation of ‘primitive’ societies.


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