Globalization – An Anthropological Approach

My paper comprises an approach of globalization using some main concepts and perspectives of cultural anthropology, aiming at a clearer description of the phenomenon and its current trends. Concerning this topic, we can find a vast bibliography available to us in Romania which reflects three different perspectives on it: a positive and promoting one; a negative, rejecting one; and a neutral, merely informative one. None of these seemed to me profound and wide enough to offer explanations, descriptions, interpretations, argumentations, in order to objectively help the reader understand globalization, as it is increasingly affecting each of us nowadays.In my view, cultural anthropology is the science that has the most appropriate theoretical and methodological background to contribute to the clarification of this phenomenon; among other scientific discourses on this topic (e. g. the economic, political, geo-strategic ones) its own should be considered. Therefore, I intend to resume the main opinions on this topic formulated by some Romanian and foreign researchers, and eventually to articulate one of my own.