Apr 15, 2009
A Medical Anthropologist at large
Medical Anthropology is not about medicine, but about Society. It is a tool in which we can divert the gaze of the academics who focus on rituals and symbolism to…
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Countries: <span>Paris</span>
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Apr 15, 2009
Neighbourhood Brasserie
In every neighbourhood there are Brasseries and some of them have long histories in Paris. Many were begun by people who came from very poor parts of France and they…
Apr 15, 2009
Pesach in Paris Jour 2
Claude Berger is certainly an interesting man.. Born and raised in Marais, the jewish district, this writer, philospher, marxist, and a dentist to boost and a lover of jewish culture…
Apr 15, 2009
Pesach in Paris
today is 14 Nissan 5769, it is also the birthday of one of our greatest philosophers, Maimonides born in Cordoba and died in Cairo. best known for his treatise: The…
Mar 15, 2009
Jiddu in India and Rachel in Hong Kong…
A mind which is seeking permanency soon stagnates.. said JKM. But like moths to the light, we are standing in line to conform. Here he is talking about the mind,…
Mar 15, 2009
Back to the Blue House among the UmonHon
Air France Paris to Miami. a full flight, comfortable and safe flight. a little tedious, 9 h 40 minutes. five minutes for Immigration and less than one minute for Customs…
Mar 15, 2009
Shabbat Shalom from Yerushalayim
I am a little groggy from my flight from Miami and how nice to receive this photo from my brother Ricardo who is at present in Yerushalayim with his wife…
Mar 15, 2009
Sandra Kennedy.. The Last of three posts
on arriving in Paris, an email from Sandra was waiting with some pictures from her birthday party.. here she is with some good friends and in the bottom picture, you…
Mar 15, 2009
Pablo Neruda, Sauvignon Blanc from Marlborough and Indians
there is a line from Pablo Neruda that keeps repeating itself in my head y sabre acariciar las neuvas flores por que tu me ensenaste la ternura.. I am sitting…
Mar 15, 2009
Tokyo Sonata de Kiyoshi Kurasawa
TOKYO SONATA JAPAO 2008 KIYOSHI KUROSAWA Watched on a flight from Paris to Madras on 16 fevrier 2009. Avec Teruyuki Kagawa Desperation. A senseof failure. Wanting to start all over.…
Jan 15, 2009
The Shoe maker of Pondichery
The shoe maker of Pondicherry I had visited this erstwhile French colony in 2004, and just around the corner from the boutique hotel (now undergoiong reparations) was a hole in…
Dec 15, 2008
First Snow Fall for the Season..while I am here..
The Morning After the Snow Fall....Photo 5 Dinner at the Blue House . Photo 4 By 10 pm it was snowing hard. photo 3 Vida, an UmonHon, mother of my…