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An Indonesian city’s destruction reverberates across Sulawesi

  • Written by Jennifer Nourse, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Richmond
A bridge in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, was destroyed in the recent earthquake and tsunami.AP Photo/Aaron Favila

I’ve been visiting the city of Palu in Central Sulawesi, a province in Indonesia, for the past 38 years as part of my anthropological fieldwork.

So it was particularly harrowing for me to read about the 7.7 magnitude...

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