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…
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.
Apr 15, 2009
To Myanmar With Love
To Myanmar with Love: A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur from Things Asian Press in Bangkok will be published this month.. I have two stories in it The Hat Sellers…
Apr 15, 2009
Overweight Atheletes of America
This evening I witnessed a group of young Indians joyously playing a sport they adore.. Basketball. there was much happiness in the air and the efforts were strenuous. One can…
Mar 15, 2009
Normandie, Friends, Food and Nostalgie
I think of the good friends I have made over the years, how did they enter your life, silently, and then become inevitably etched..some arrive and leave soon enough but…
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
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
Who comes to your Blog and reads them? NEOMETER
Just a few days ago I added this NEOCOUNTER to the blog. I never thought many people would have the time or inclination to read random postings, but it was…
Mar 15, 2009
Culture of Poverty
The Culture of Poverty Today is March 9 th , 2009 and I am in the richest country. (By their own reckoning and calculations.) But I am amidst a very…
Mar 15, 2009
Ice Snow in the Indian Country
The village where i am now is eerily quiet, nary a vehicle or sound ..This morning, I noticed that the steps in front of the house where I am staying…
Mar 15, 2009
Purim Pictures from Israel
My Brother Itzhak is in Israel with his wife and son, Shmulik. He sent me these lovely photos of the Purim celebrations in Jerusalem.
Mar 15, 2009
American Indian Faces
When people know that I am associated with native american indains, they usually ask me a slew of questions and i realize that the idea of an american indian is…
Mar 15, 2009
Bernard Lewis and the future of Arab Freedom..
Historian Bernard Lewis breathes a fresh perspective into the cultural conflict between the Arab and Islamic world and the west. Even as early as 1950, he had thought that the…
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.…
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
Visitors in an afternoon in the HoCank Clinic
This afternoon was a very pleasant afternoon.. I had various visitors some of whom are shown above. Five medical students from the City nearby came over to listen to some…
Mar 15, 2009
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SANDRA KENNEDY IN MELBOURNE
It is one of Life’s greatest pleasures, indeed, when out of the mist of time, where memories hide, one small glimmer of a light comes out, bringing with it fragrances…
Mar 15, 2009
Celebrating Sandra Kennedy’s Birthday in South Sioux City Nebraska USA
to celebrate the birthday of our friend Sandra Kennedy, what better occasion than to dine out in the finest restaurant available nearby.. considering that we all live 50 km from…
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…