Dec 15, 2015
THE LUCKY ENDOCRINOLOGIST OF HAVANA..OUR ANTHROPOLOGIST IN CUBA
I am writing this in a hotel room in Westport in the State of Washington in the USA. I can hear the ocean in the distance and i can see…
Stories
Field notes from the road
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.
Dec 15, 2015
WESTPORT, WASHINGTON USA AN ENTHUSIASTIC RETURN TO AMERICANA
Westport, Washington: A report from what used to be the Salmon Capital of the World Going towards the Pacific coast, skirting the Puget Sound, once you pass an indistinct town…
Dec 15, 2015
MY SISTER FRIEND FROM GRAYLAND, WASHINGTON
For a person who was not fortunate enough to spend a lot of time with those related by blood to me, I have been extraordinarily grateful for the many members…
Dec 15, 2015
FRACTURED MEDICAL CARE IN TIME OF ARROGANCE OF BIOMEDICINE
FRACTURED MEDICAL CARE IN THE TIME OF TECHNOLOGY There is a shortage of Primary Care Providers so the burden has been shared with not so well prepared Doctor’s Assistant and…
Dec 15, 2015
WHY ARE EDUCATED IMMIGRANTS FROM INDIA SO ATTRACTED TO FRAUD IN THE USA ? THE CASE OF DOCTORS
FROM THE ECONOMIST AND TO QUOTE Some criminals are switching from cocaine trafficking to prescription-drug fraud because the risk-adjusted rewards are higher: the money is still good, the work safer…
Dec 15, 2015
AN UMONHON NOZHITHI’A EN OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON
Little Mr D whom I met for the first time, is the son of Mitexi, my niece in the UmonHon Tradition. Olympia, the capital of the State of Washington is…
Dec 15, 2015
CUBA AND AMERICA: ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY 17 DECEMBER 2015
The greatest victory of the accord of 17 dec 2014 between Obama and Castro, USA and Cuba is that Americans have flocked to the country in their thousands and seen…
Dec 15, 2015
CUBAN DEFECTORS VERSUS CUBAN BENEFACTORS: WHY THE AMERICANS FASCINATED WITH THE DEFECTORS
The diplomatic relationship between Cuba and USA are getting better by the day and the majority of the Cubans are happy with this outcome. This thaw also has created a…
Dec 15, 2015
YVES BERTHOU AND PRANAYAMA: AN ANTHROPOLOGIST IN BRITTANY, FRANCE
YVES BERTHOU AND PRANAYAMA Most people in the west are now aware of the Yogic Breathing, Pranayama, which is used for relaxation as well as treatment for some of the…
Nov 15, 2015
CRYING FOR PARIS, THE FRENCH NATION AND THE FRENCH PEOPLE 13.11.2015
First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out…
Nov 15, 2015
SPEECH BY FRENCH PRIME MINISTER MORE RELEVANT NOW THAN EVER
I am touched by the solidarity Solidarite shown by people all around the world for France and its people and also for Jewish People at this very difficult time. I…
Oct 15, 2015
ANIBAL THE BOATMAN OF THE AMAZON
HANNIBAL THE BOATMAN OF THE AMAZON The amazon conjures up various images in the mind of the European or their descendants in USA. It is painting of a savage on…
Oct 15, 2015
HOW MUCH DO CUBANS EARN PER MONTH?
HOW MUCH DO CUBANS EARN? This is a question often asked of me, and over the years, representing Cuba, in an unofficial capacity as its roving ambassador, self-described of course,…
Oct 15, 2015
TICUNA TRIBE OF THE AMAZON
Original Blogger URL: https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2015/10/ticuna-tribe-of-amazon.html
Oct 15, 2015
CONFUSION ABOUT CULTURAL IDENTITY: SOY LETICIANO, CASE REPORT FROM lETICIA IN COLOMBIA
I AM NOTHING. A BEGINNING OF CULTURAL CONFUSION AND LACK OF IDENTITY AND HOW IT IMPACTS HEALTH I have just been to Leticia, in Colombian Amazon, my fourth visit in…
Oct 15, 2015
PLANET OF PRE DIABETES: THE CASE OF COLOMBIAN AMAZON
PLANET OF PRE-DIABETES OR HOW I GOT A DISCOUNT AT A PHOTOSHOP IN COLOMBIAN AMAZON One visionary leader in the year 2000 went against the then enthusiastic endorsement of globalization…
Oct 15, 2015
CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE EMERGING WORLD OF ASIA IRAN INDIA MALAYSIA
CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE EMERGING WORLD Personal thoughts about IRAN INDIA MALAYSIA The idea to write this blog came when I was on a long distance flight reading FT of…
Oct 15, 2015
Happiness and Health
Recently while in the Amazon River region, I was asked: what do you do keep yourself healthy? There are Medical and Anthropological answer to this question and surprisingly enough, they…