Anthropology of crisis and metaphors of transition

The anthropology of crisis and diversity must address the specific conditions under which culture is considered as over-biological mode of social survival and complicated semantic system. The author investigates the effects of global challenges on cultural processes and intercultural integration. With increased pressure on culture due to global transformations the world becomes more unsustainable and explosive. Using the concepts of structuralism framework, the author contends that there is a contemporary crisis a breach of international order, and effacing of differences is a reaction to structural deformations of world cultural system and a crisis of identity. This article also explores recent transformations in changing culture and grounds their causes, semantic images and articulations in discourse of social-phenomenological knowledge. Crisis has diverse manifestations, but all its reflections come from one general foundation - unfinished anthropological nature of humanity, its non-specification (insufficiency) and social estrangement. Any crisis has its culture and if people will learn to manage the culture of crisis they could overcome conflicts, violence and realize the transition from social disconnection to multicultural integration and planetary solidarity. The sacred and mythological constants are considered as metaphors transition and they serve as a reference points in the life of society.