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When an Indigenous community in Oaxaca, snubbed by telecom giants, created its own mobile network, things didn’t go exactly as planned…

In a yearly ritual, an algorithm pairs medical students with U.S. residency programs. An anthropologist explains how this technology of…

Organic cotton agriculture in India fails, resoundingly, to produce as much cotton as conventional methods. But what if that’s not the…

Highways, factories, and other development projects across the United States are threatening the sacred spaces of African American…

Anarchists have been an easy scapegoat for violent events in recent months. But anarchism, as a political philosophy, is fundamentally…

An anthropologist explains how conspiracy theories and recent protests in the U.S. over COVID-19 vaccines can’t be untangled from American…

Arranged marriages and love marriages are sometimes seen as cultural opposites, but it’s far more complicated.

News headlines suggest that the problems of 2020 were unprecedented, but the collision of a pandemic and racial violence is nothing new…

The ways in which Andean villagers have adapted to a neighboring volcano could offer lessons to other communities in reframing risks and…