Jul 15, 2010
False Indians of Cuba .. the so called Tainos
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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.
May 15, 2010
Photos from La Habana, Cuba
Two wonderful weeks in San Cristobal de la Habana.. a moveable feast indeed! Such good friends and so pure interactions.. and intellectually very few cities in the Americas (BA and…
May 15, 2010
Photos from La Habana, Cuba
Hope my friends can see these photographs taken recently in Nuestra Ciudad San Cristobal de la HABANA, Cuba..
Jan 15, 2010
Another First for Cuba
CIVIL SERVICE COMMON EXAM (CSCE) RESULTS 2009- There were a total of 13 medical doctors who have appeared for the 2009 common exam, a majority of whom had graduated from…
Jan 15, 2010
Cuban Help to Haiti
It is not a known fact that cuba has nearly 400 doctors working in haiti all over the island as a part of the solidarity programme for poor countries. there…
Jan 15, 2010
How little they know about Cuba in the USA
Zilch. Nada. Pitiable. No wonder they keep on committing blunder after blunder when it comes to their foreign policy.. News item from 4 Jan 2010.. La liste des pays visés…
Dec 15, 2009
Kervallon Cuba Connexion How Could Be
Kervallon-Cuba Connexion? How could be a village of population 20, be connected to our beloved island in the Caribbean? Improbable, no? I am not counting my presence here, bringing in…
Dec 15, 2009
Jamaican American Cuban Hospitality.. in Miami
The flight from CDG to MIA is a little tedious, 9 hours and 30 minutes.. the first few hours goes by quickly and then a couple of hours go slowly..…
Oct 15, 2009
Thoughts on Cuba on hearing about a Cuban Art Exhibition in KL
Cuba, whatever its political and economic shortcoming, was at least, for Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a moral triumph. It is not Colombia, GGM's birthplace, whose own cachaco military officers plotted to…
Sep 15, 2009
CUBA and Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabo and Magical Realism; Alejo Carpentier and Realidad Maravillosa Currently I am reading an excellent book, Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life by Gerald Martin, a labour of love of over…
Jul 15, 2009
Cuban Heart and Parisian Mind and Sefardi Stomach
Newly found Love for Paris One thing you would learn living in Cuba is that you are curious about most things and you become very observant. when you show someone…
Jul 15, 2009
Cultural Frankensteins of Cuba
Cultural Frankenstein How the foreigners fail to transact symbols in Cuba. Sometimes, it is interesting to see a Cuban walking by, and your immediate thought is Here goes a cultural…
Jun 15, 2009
Cuban Generosity of Educating poor foreigners
Day 4 Havana Woke up in the middle of the night feeling unwell, and that was to continue for the rest of the day. This became a day of rest.…
Jun 15, 2009
Cuba Cleans your heart..provides fire for my love for Paris
To Understand the Love for France … while in Cuba One of the things I would like to do on this trip is to find out the relationship, inversely or…
Jun 15, 2009
Welcome to Nuestra Isla Rica.. Mi Cuba
It is searingly hot here in Habana. Unrelenting and burning through to your bones. This morning I left the house of my sister in Miami at 530 am, arriving at…
Dec 15, 2008
Medical Anthropology, Marginalization and MI CUBA
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…
Mar 15, 2008
Cuba and Vietnam
A Letter to my friends in Cuba: Dear Friends: I want to convey to you two images from my first few hours in Vietnam. In Miami, I had bought a…
Mar 15, 2008
A slice of Cuba in Lille on a cold and rainy Night
Cuba continues to give me gifts wherever I go. One such thing happened to me on this rainy cold night in Lille in the north of France I am a…