Anthropology Matters! in Brief (original) (raw)

8:00 a.m. Wednesday morning, November 29—After a jetlagged night, I wake in the American Anthropological Association conference hotel to a media flurry about President Donald Trump’s sharing of anti-Muslim videos from a British far-right group. It is my first time in the US since Trump’s inauguration—it feels strikingly different and, yet somehow, the same. His garrulous talking head appears everywhere, the media caught in the stranglehold of reporting on his every move. I flick through news channels to escape him. It is impossible.

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