The Anthropology of Donald Trump : Culture and the Exceptional Moment (Hardcover)

Introduction; Jack David Eller Part One: Ethnographies of Trump Country Chapter 1 Stigmatized Identity Motivating Right-Wing Populism: How the Tea Party Learned to Love Donald Trump; William Westermeyer Chapter 2 The Reddest of States: Fieldnotes from Trumplandia; Michael Harkin Chapter 3 Making the Cuban American Dream Great Again: Race and the Immigrant in Miami; Ariana Hernandez-Reguant Chapter 4 We’re on the Same Team, Right?: Political Polarization and Social Connections in "Trump Country"; Claudine Pied Part Two: Performing and Representing Donald Trump Chapter 5 Indexing Ambivalence: Laterality and Negation in Donald Trump’s Co-Speech Gestures; Daniel Lefkowitz Chapter 6 Trump the Caudillo: Tapping into Already-Existing Populist Unrest; Micah Fleck Chapter 7 Lying as a Cultural System; Jack David Eller Chapter 8 Orange Candles and Shriveled Cheetos: Symbolic Representations of Trump in the Anti-Trump Witchcraft Movement; Julie Fine Part Three: Donald Trump versus Social Institutions Chapter 9 "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; Benjamin Schaefer Chapter 10 Trumping the Past, Trumping the Future: How Political Messianism and Conspiracy Theory Cultism Come Front and Center in American Politics; Bruce Knauft Chapter 11 Hindutva and Donald Trump: An Unholy Relation; Raj Singh Chapter 12 The Events at the Capitol and the Trump Mediation: America’s Uncivil War and New Authoritarian Totalitarian Possibilities; Bruce Kapferer and Roland Kapferer Afterword; Jeff Maskovsky