Are Mixed-Income Neighborhoods the Best Answer for Public Housing?
An anthropologist documents the social tolls of new mixed-income developments while also acknowledging the gains.
Are Mixed-Income Neighborhoods the Best Answer for Public Housing?
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Why Land Acknowledgments Matter
One anthropologist views the public recognition of traditional lands as a way to remember the past while stepping toward the future.
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How Geocachers Navigate Fear in the Urban Woods
An anthropologist’s study of a mobile digital game highlights the stereotypes that dictate who is seen as sexually threatening or vulnerable in urban spaces.
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What Google Maps Don’t Show You
The long history of Native American tribes is nowhere to be found on modern maps. So the Zuni decided it was time to create their own kind of cartography.
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In the Land of the Mammoth Eaters
One archaeological site in Texas has yielded an astonishing amount of evidence that people have been in North America for over 15,000 years.
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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.