摘要：Anthropology has become one of the most fascinating and engaging disciplines in the vast field of scientific knowledge. Moving beyond the periods of contact and domination of the 15th through 20th Centuries, the world observed by anthropologists has moved into a new phase of interdependency and communications that must be addressed as a theme of central interest to the discipline. It is in this context that migration is, without a doubt, the central most important issue of our days, particularly as it unfolds in the context of all other remarkable events and concerns of our times (economic development, the environment, religious violence, cultural imperialism and resistance). The author calls attention to the emergence and consolidation of a transnational culture of consumption, crystallizing in the age of massive economic migrations that have signified the human experience in recent decades.
