The Anthropology of Donald Trump (eBook, ePUB)

Culture and the Exceptional Moment
Redaktion: Eller, Jack David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 Trump's supporters, policies, and performance in office.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000468557
• Artikelnr.: 62912524

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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. "We're on the Same Team, Right?": Political Polarization and Social
Connections in "Trump Country"
6. Indexing Ambivalence: Laterality and Negation in Donald Trump's
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 Don't Think the Science Knows, Actually": The Biocultural Impacts of
Trump's 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: America's Uncivil
War and New Authoritarian Totalitarian Possibilities
Afterword: Authroritarianism After Trump