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 By the end of the 20th century, anthropology had fully embraced the idea that there was a global context for their work in any one single local setting.
+Now it is common to hear that globalization may slowing down, or going in reverse, e.g.:
+* Wong, Edward, and Ana Swanson. 2022. “Ukraine War and Pandemic Force Nations to Retreat From Globalization.” The New York Times, March 22, 2022, sec. U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/us/politics/russia-china-global-economy.html.
 Globalization is ongoing, but hasn’t worked out the way anyone expected. What can we learn now from the anthropology of globalization in retrospect?
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 A global capitalist system is, by definition, also a system that comprises many different cultures, settings, and ways of life.
-Yet the contact among cultures in a global system takes place in a very specific and highly unequal set of institutions: - Goods move freely, people (mostly) don’t.
+Yet the contact among cultures in a global system takes place in a very specific and highly unequal set of institutions:
+- Goods move freely, people (mostly) don’t.
 Nostalgia for “traditional culture” is the commodity fetishism of difference.