社会文化人类学者所指的全球化是全球范围内的“社会、经济、文化”或者“图像、人民、货币、技术，总之各种主体和客体”的流动这一全球社会文化体系。虽然人类文化接触古已有之，但至少只有发展到资本主义时代，并且是在打破了国家界线、地区界线以至洲际界线之后，这种文化接触过程才被一些学者们视为具有“全球化”的意义。在面对世纪之交的上述重要时代特征，笔者试图根据所读到的有限论著和了解到的疏漏情况，对“全球化”背景下的社会文化人类学研究作一简略的介绍。并基于这些有限的了解和本人的田野观察与思考，对在新世纪初期该学科的研究大胆妄加展望 Social and cultural anthropologists refer to globalization as the global social and cultural system of “social, economic and cultural” or “the flow of images, people, money, technology, and various subjects and objects in the world.” Although human culture has existed for a long time to come into contact with it, at least it has only developed into the era of capitalism and broke through the national boundaries, the regional boundaries and even the intercontinental boundaries. This cultural contact process was regarded by some scholars as “globalized” Meaning. In the face of the above-mentioned important characteristics of the times at the turn of the century, the author tries to give a brief introduction to the socio-cultural anthropological research in the context of “globalization” based on the limited readings and omissions learned. And based on these limited understandings and my observations and thinking of the field, I dare to look boldly at the study of this subject at the beginning of the new century