{
  "id": 823271,
  "title": "Why Sri Lanka needs anthropologists more than ever",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/why-sri-lanka-needs-anthropologists-more-than-ever",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-13T23:55:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Island Sri Lanka",
    "slug": "the-island-sri-lanka",
    "url": "http://island.lk/why-sri-lanka-needs-anthropologists-more-than-ever/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "by Professor M. W. Amarasiri de Silva Sri Lanka is living through one of the most complex periods in its postindependence history. It has endured political upheaval, economic collapse, social fragmentation, environmental stress, and the lingering emotional debris of a three decade civil war. These crises have not occurred in isolation; they overlap, reinforce, and […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}