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Why Aid Remains Out of Reach for Some Rohingya Refugees

Field Notes

Why Aid Remains Out of Reach for Some Rohingya Refugees

Even with the right to health care secured, medical assistance is elusive for urban refugees in India.
$Highly pure silica sand is used in hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas extraction in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, Wyoming, and North Dakota, among other states. Along with water and various chemicals, the sand is injected deep underground, where it props open tiny fractures in bedrock formations to allow for the release of hydrocarbons. With its round and smooth granules, frac sand is extremely strong and durable, and resists being crushed under high pressure.$
How Fracking’s Appetite for Sand Is Devouring Rural Communities

Small towns in western Wisconsin are being divided by a little-known mining boom. An anthropologist who lives in the region set out to understand why.
The Death of a Hungry God

The electrocution of a wild elephant in a village in northeast India illustrates how these formidable beings are experienced as both animal and deity.
Anthropology’s Top Findings of 2017

For the field that studies everything human, the past year has been one of great upheaval and radical revelations.
When It’s Not Safe to Sleep

The sleep patterns of the homeless reveal the vulnerabilities of street life.
Is the Developed World We’ve Created Giving Us Cancer?

An anthropologist's search for answers to her own cancer diagnosis raises questions for all of us.