ABSTRACT
The increasing privatization and regulation of profession laid the foundations for the bureaucratic reorganization of US anthropology in the mid-1980s. Since 1990, anthropologists influenced by Marxian accounts have focused their attention on the linkages between anthropology and history, especially with regard to the dynamics of capitalism: the processes, conditions, and events that propelled its formation and subsequent development under different circumstances. Capitalism has been described as "a dynamic bundle of contradictory but interdependent, spatialized relationships of inequality, power and extraction, and the mythologies that are associated with them". Populism is organized around the antagonisms and anger materialized by failures of the neoliberal economy and state. One practitioner remarked that anthropology is the study of people in crisis by people in crisis. A growing number of anthropologists are looking at the New Gilded Age differently. They are looking at how the contradictions underpinning the crisis have emerged and crystallized, how they have intersected and developed, and how they have been obscured.
