ABSTRACT
The crises in American society since the late 1960s have been shaped by the intersection of several interrelated processes. A fourth-symbolic, interpretive, and postmodernist anthropology-coincided with the "cultural turn" in the social sciences and humanities in the 1970s. Diamond saw anthropology as the study of people in crisis who were in crisis themselves. Symbolic, interpretive, and postmodernist anthropologies, while conceptually distinct, are often conflated because they were frequently linked together in the late twentieth century. In the first sense, globalization is synonymous with imperialism and colonialism-processes that were evident by the end of the eighteenth century. From the mid-1990s onward, Marcus and Fischer, among others, published synthetic articles dealing with globalization. The appearance of US society seemed to become more diverse in the late 1960s and 1970s.
