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Feb 17, 2021
How to ‘Co-Live’ With a Natural Hazard
The ways in which Andean villagers have adapted to a…
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Feb 5, 2021
What a ‘Safe and Dignified’ Burial Means During a Pandemic
A few months into the pandemic, a friend…
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Jul 16, 2020
Combating Anti-Black Racism in Brazil and Beyond
An interview with anthropologist Christen A. Smith…
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Jul 20, 2020
Is Celebrity Attention Helping or Hurting Amazonian Peoples?
As stars around the world petition…
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Feb 21, 2020
What Bacterial Cultures Reveal About Ours
Dairying is one of the great puzzles of history. An archaeologist set out to unravel it and, in the process, discovered Mongolia’s hidden wealth of endangered…
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Nov 20, 2019
Why Did Chinese Farmers Switch to Wheat?
A shift in ancient Chinese crops shows how agricultural…
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Dec 13, 2019
Can This Indigenous Language Thrive in a Digital Age?
A majority of Paraguayans speak Guaraní despite…
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Oct 3, 2019
India’s Third Gender Rises Again
Hijras are striving to overcome a century of discrimination and…
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Jul 23, 2019
The Dark Side of Skin Whitening
A desire for lighter skin tones is deeply entrenched in many parts of…
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Jul 8, 2019
How Some Tried — and Failed — to Kill ‘Race’ in Latin America
The use of genetic testing to…
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