To those who have secure housing, seeing a homeless person might inspire a range of emotions: pity, disgust, fear. Yet in their day-to-day lives – in their longing to establish a routine, to interact with others, and to create some privacy – homeless people are just like the rest of society. “Homemakers once, they are homemakers still,” writes Susan Fraiman, who describes the creative and resourceful ways that homeless people build dwellings.

In Venezuela, clashes between protesters and government security forces have become increasingly violent. In May, an 18-year-old violist and member of El Sistema, a state-funded music program for youth, became one of at least 76 people who have been killed at protests since April. Now, writes an anthropologist who spent months studying one of the oldest and most prized institutions in Venezuela, “El Sistema has made a sonorous appearance on the protest stage, signaling that a wider segment of the Venezuelan population is joining anti-government protests.”

A decade after the first iPhone came out, it’s easy to think the cultural and societal changes smartphones have wrought are due to technological innovation. But management design professor Kalle Lyytinen from Case Western Reserve University looks back and sees an entirely different – and very human – reason the iPhone was such a game-changer.