Anthropology and the Culture of Capitalism
... This essay will discuss this situation, as well as the effects of the culture of globalisation and capitalism, citing issues and problems faced by nations not in the Western clique, the so-called poorer, or third world nations, as a result of this culture. Anthropology can be vital to understanding this developing culture of globalisation, yet for the most part anthropology is something of an unknown to mainstream society. A rather simplified explanation is that anthropology is the study of humanity and cultural diversity. ... They are cultural, archaeological, biological and linguistic anthropology, making up the four large subgroups of American anthropology (Website: American Anthropology Association; accessed 8. ... One method of achieving this is the anthropological imagination, which is best described as a lens through which anthropologists can observe and examine why things within a culture are done in a certain way (Gomes 12.