Manut galah, akeh antropologi dados kapolitisasik majalaran antuk perang kemerdekaan Algeria miwah oposisi  majeng perang Vietnam; Marxisme kedadosang pendekatan teoritis  sane sayan kaloktah ring wawidangan disiplin inucap.
In keeping with the times, much of anthropology became politicized through the Algerian War of Independence and opposition to the Vietnam War; Marxism became an increasingly popular theoretical approach in the discipline.