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.
How Fracking’s Appetite for Sand Is Devouring Rural Communities
Economics
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How Chinese Immigrants Built—and Lost—a Shellfish Industry
They founded California’s first commercial abalone fisheries, but after a few short decades, they were forced out by institutional racism. Let’s not repeat the same mistakes with current and future immigrants.
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Is the United Nations Broken?
Anthropologists turned the U.N. into a field site. Their studies highlight the U.N.'s fragility, but we shouldn't give up on the organization just yet.
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Life and Death After the Steel Mills
In her study of a community devastated by industry's flight, anthropologist Christine Walley raises questions about how to create and support meaningful work in a postindustrial world.
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Iceland’s Forgotten Fisherwomen
Many Icelandic women fished in the 18th and 19th centuries, but their work has been largely unrecognized. Why did these female seafarers fade from the country’s memory?
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The Surreal World of Money
Without the material value of a literal coin, we are left to trust in the symbolic relationships that give meaning to money.