Sep 15, 2019
THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURPRISE WAITING FOR YOU AT HEMMABERG IN AUSTRIAN ALPS
Original Blogger URL: https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-archaeological-surprise-waiting-for.html
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Medicine, culture, travel, food, healing, and human stories from my archive. Start with a trail, search for a memory, or move by year.
Roads, meals, clinics, and human encounters.Archive into inquiry
These field notes are not only memory. They are the ground from which my new field inquiries begin.
The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
Sep 15, 2019
A MAGICAL DAY AT THE SLOVENIA-ITALY-AUSTRIA BORDER OF MOUNTAINS AND LAKES
I was visiting my friends BB and D who live in a small village of Sankt Mikael near the small town of Bleiburg along the Austrian alps. Both are natives…
Jun 15, 2023
AMERINDIO. THE CULTURAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF INDIGENOUS MEXICANS TO MEXICAN CULTURE
When you are in Mexico, it does not take very long to realise the contribution of the indigenous people to the culture of Mexico. Unlike the predominantly protestant immigrant country…
Feb 15, 2023
A MOST PLEASANT 14 FEBRUARY. DIA DE LA AMISTAD AS WE SAY IN CUBA. A DAY OF FRIENDSHIP
Today has turned out to be a very pleasant day.. I do not pay much attention to the Valentine's Day hype in the West but in Cuba this day is…
Aug 15, 2022
DO NOT SEARCH FOR PEOPLE TO MEET, THOSE WHO YOU NEED TO MEET WILL COME YOUR WAY, SAID MY MESKWAKIA TEACHER
My introduction to the world of Native American people propitiously began with the traditional tribe of MESKWAKIA and I have to be grateful to them, as I ended up dedicating…
Nov 15, 2021
STRANGE TO BE DREAMING OF TRAVEL AND NOT BEING ABLE TO BOOK ANYTHING HA.. 2019 WAS SUCH A GOOD YEAR FOR TRAVEL PRE COVID
I felt that the year 2019 was an extraordinarily good year for travel . COUNTRIES VISITED IN 2019 MANY TIMES USA CUBA FRANCE MEXICO COLOMBIA BRASIL ARGENTINA URUGUAY CHILE EASTER…
Oct 15, 2021
iVAN ILLICH. THE MEDICAL NEMESIS
CUERNAVACA, MEXICO is so full of longings. No puedo vivir sin amor, laments the alcoholic ex-British consul played by that great actor Albert Finney in Malcolm Lowery's book Under the…
Jul 15, 2021
HOW TO TRANSITION FROM ONE CULTURE TO THE NEXT: IN MY CASE AN ENJOYABLE SOLUTION OF FLYING EXPERIENCE
In today's discussion, the airline in question is SWISS airlines. I have flown them a few times before, once Montreal to Zurich to Singapore and back, eleven years ago almost…
Jun 15, 2021
HOW TO INCREASE YOUR THINKING POWER? HAVE AN ABSOLUTE DAY OF TRANQUILITY AND BLISS WITH NO ANXIETY
I have had two days of absolute tranquility, calm and mental balance. No one else is in this house, I have my coffee at the patio looking at the green…
Jan 15, 2021
NEVER BEFORE HAVE I FELT THIS IMPOTENT ABOUT INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL
It was March 18, 2020 and I had packed my bags and ready to go to the airport to leave the USA. My sister and her husband begged me to…
Nov 15, 2020
AS WE BEGIN TO TRAVEL, IT IS GOOD TO AVOID PLACES WHICH ARE POLLUTED AND GO TO PLACES WHICH ARE LESS POLLUTED
The majority of the polluted CITIES in this world are either in INDIA, CHINA or PAKISTAN . That does not mean all of CHINA and INDIA are polluted. Of the…
Jun 15, 2020
WE WILL MEET AGAIN DAME VERA LYNN ECHOES IN MIAMI
We'll meet again Don't know where Don't know when But I know we'll meet again some sunny day Keep smiling through Just like you always do 'Till the blue skies…
May 15, 2020
LA VIDA ES UN SUENO GRACIAS POR LA VIDA. THANKS FOR THIS MAGIC, MY DEAR FRIENDS
Magic days amidst rain and thunder in Miami They had announced it earlier, a storm is forming out on the horizon and one could feel more than normal rain and…
May 15, 2020
INFLAMMATION ASSOCIATED CHRONIC DISEASES: A TIME TO REEVALUATE OUR MEDICAL APPROACHES
I remember that day clearly, at a clinic for indigenous people. The doctor to whom I was speaking was a Pakistani, who was working in that remote location, fulfilling requirements…
Apr 15, 2020
USA A RICH COUNTRY NOW NEEDS ISRAEL FOR ITS TECHNOLOGY AND CUBA FOR ITS HUMAN SOLIDARITY
I have chosen to love three different countries other than my own: USA , Israel and Cuba. This is the story about the three of them. While hard hit countries…
Apr 15, 2020
TROUBADOURS OF TRAGEDY….. LISTEN TO THE DOCTORS WHO ARE LOOKING AFTER PATIENTS RATHER THAN NUMBER CRUNCHERS
American Epidemiologists, in anthropological parlance, are referred to as, those troubadours of tragedy. Always ready to incite fear, they might begin an article with” in 2040 there would be 500…
Apr 15, 2020
ARE THE MEXICAN AMERICANS BEING SAVED BY THEIR INDIAN BLOOD ADMIXTURE ? IN THE TIME OF COVID-19
ARE THE MEXICAN AMERICANS BEING SAVED BY THEIR INDIAN BLOOD ADMIXTURE ? IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 I have had the pleasure of visiting Indigenous groups in most of the…
Apr 15, 2020
REDEMPTION SONG… ON THE EVE OF CELEBRATING MY FIRST ONE MAN SEDER WITHOUT A MATZO
It is a wonderfully beautiful full moon night in Miami. Why is this night different from all the other nights? I will tell you I was told to go out…