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.

• 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 Trump3. The Reddest of States: Fieldnotes from Trumplandia4. Making the Cuban American Dream Great Again: Race and Immigrant Citizenship in Miami5. "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 Gestures7. Trump the Caudillo: Tapping into Already-Existing Populist Unrest8. Lying as a Cultural System9. Orange Candles and Shriveled Cheetos: Symbolic Representations of Trump in the Anti-Trump Witchcraft Movement10. "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 Racism11. Trumping the Past, Trumping the Future: How Political Messianism and Conspiracy Theory Cultism Come Front and Center in American Politics12. Hindutva and Donald Trump: An Unholy Relation13. The Events at the Capitol and the Trump Mediation: America’s Uncivil War and New Authoritarian Totalitarian PossibilitiesAfterword: Authroritarianism After Trump

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