Anthropology Matters: Introduction

摘要

On 9th November 2016, with BBC Radio 4 switched on for breakfast, Donald Trump’s voicefilled the room. It was a brief speech and it sounded civil. This struck people by surprise afterall the indecencies of the previous months and weeks, although some of us had to turn off theradio: ‘It was too hypocritical.’ Indeed, one could but query the democratic process whichlimited the US voters’ choice to two candidates who both were lacking in stature anddecorum. Watching the campaigns on TV had been worrying, to say the least, and in largepart distasteful.