Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia

Mar 18, 2024 | sapiens.org | Jenny Davis |Michael Perez |Rick Schulting |Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia

Get weekly insights about our world through anthropology. A poet-anthropologist of the Chickasaw Nation honors infant remains historically used in teaching collections at the University of Illinois. “Infant, Name Once Known” is part of the collection Poems of Witness and Possibility: Inside Zones of Conflict. Read the introduction to the collection here.

Mar 7, 2024 | sapiens.org | Michael Perez |Emily Sekine |Rick Schulting |Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia

Walid has diabetes and lives in Jordan. Throughout his youth, the disease was manageable. He worked and took care of his 13 children without any problems. One day, however, his leg felt strange. He could sense something was wrong and worried he might get gangrene. Walid couldn’t afford health insurance, so he asked several of his sons to take him to a public hospital that offered subsidized care for the poor. When he got to the hospital, the doctors refused treatment.

Mar 5, 2024 | sapiens.org | Rick Schulting |Marlaina Martin |Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia |Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽THE IDEA THAT TWO different human species, Homo sapiens (us) and Neanderthals, coexisted in Western Eurasia 50,000–40,000 years ago has long captured the imagination of academics and the public alike.

Feb 27, 2024 | sapiens.org | Bridget Alex |Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia |Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa |Ang Dolma Sherpa

✽In the summer of 2022, one of us, Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia, brought gifts to his relatives with babies in northeast India. In their Sikkimese Bhutia community, new mothers receive chicken, cash, and other items known as Bya-kay—literally, “bringing a chicken.”Among the Bya-kay well-wishers presented, he noticed offering scarves, or khatak. Ritual specialists also raised prayer flags, or lungta, outside the residences of new babies.