Anthropology & the Global World: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology presents a global perspective on humanity and on human culture, poverty, exploitation, work, beliefs, and the primary institutions that make up human societies. The text takes a traditional approach to chapters, presenting a range of anthropological topics typical to the study of social and cultural anthropology. The aim is to introduce students to the discipline while sensitizing readers to human differences, cultural diversity, global inequities, impacts of colonization, culture and language loss, systemic racism, and other endemic problematics of our highly globalized world. It also studies the relationship between non-industrial and industrial societies, such as the impacts of development projects, multi-national corporations and aggressive industrialization.

As a Canadian-authored text, Anthropology & the Global World: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology seeks to portray Canada as a part of a global mosaic. Throughout the Chapters, the text provides a range of Canadian examples and case studies relevant to a Canadian reader, or those interested in Canada. Beyond that, there's been an attempt made to illustrate and discuss the plight of Canada's First peoples who continue to face ongoing colonization and, assimilation, expropriation, language loss, land loss, and systemic racism.