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The Anthropology of Donald Trump Jack David Eller (Community College of Denver, USA)

The Anthropology of Donald Trump By Jack David Eller (Community College of Denver, USA)

The Anthropology of Donald Trump by Jack David Eller (Community College of Denver, USA)


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The Anthropology of Donald Trump is an edited volume of original anthropological essays, composed by some of the leading figures in the discipline. It applies their concepts, perspectives, and methods to a sustained and diverse understanding Trumps supporters, policies, and performance in office.

The Anthropology of Donald Trump Summary

The Anthropology of Donald Trump: Culture and the Exceptional Moment by Jack David Eller (Community College of Denver, USA)

The Anthropology of Donald Trump

is an edited volume of original anthropological essays, composed by some of the leading figures in the discipline. It applies their concepts, perspectives, and methods to a sustained and diverse understanding of Trumps supporters, policies, and performance in office.The volume includes ethnographic case studies of "Trump country," examines Trumps actions in office, and moves beyond Trump as an individual political fgure to consider larger structural and institutional issues.

Providing a unique and valuable perspective on the Trump phenomenon, it will be of interest to anthropologists and other social scientists concerned with contemporary American society and politics as well as suitable reading for courses on political anthropology and US culture.

About Jack David Eller (Community College of Denver, USA)

Jack David Eller is Head of Global Anthropology of Religion at the Global Center for Religious Research. His research interests include anthropology of religion, psychological anthropology, violence and culture, and Australian Aboriginal cultures. His most recent book is Trump and Political Theology: Unmaking Truth and Democracy.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: On anthropology of the Contemporary Generally and of Trump Specifically

2. Stigmatized Identity Motivating Right-Wing Populism: How the Tea Party Learned to Love Donald Trump

3. The Reddest of States: Fieldnotes from Trumplandia

4. Making the Cuban American Dream Great Again: Race and Immigrant Citizenship in Miami

5. "Were on the Same Team, Right?": Political Polarization and Social Connections in "Trump Country"

6. Indexing Ambivalence: Laterality and Negation in Donald Trumps Co-Speech Gestures

7. Trump the Caudillo: Tapping into Already-Existing Populist Unrest

8. Lying as a Cultural System

9. Orange Candles and Shriveled Cheetos: Symbolic Representations of Trump in the Anti-Trump Witchcraft Movement

10. "I Dont Think the Science Knows, Actually": The Biocultural Impacts of Trumps Anti-Science and Misinformation Rhetoric, the Mishandling of the COVID-19 Pandemic, and Institutionalized Racism

11. Trumping the Past, Trumping the Future: How Political Messianism and Conspiracy Theory Cultism Come Front and Center in American Politics

12. Hindutva and Donald Trump: An Unholy Relation

13. The Events at the Capitol and the Trump Mediation: Americas Uncivil War and New Authoritarian Totalitarian Possibilities

Afterword: Authroritarianism After Trump

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NPB9780367715915
9780367715915
0367715910
The Anthropology of Donald Trump: Culture and the Exceptional Moment by Jack David Eller (Community College of Denver, USA)
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2021-11-30
242
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