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…
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.
Mar 15, 2009
Food and Travel among the Indians of America
Original Blogger URL: https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2009/03/blog-post_28.html
Mar 15, 2009
Thinking about Mamma Loshen.. Yiddisch
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20090316-0806a.mp3 http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20090316-0806a.mp3 one of the few advantages of driving through large swathes of plain countryside in the USA, in a rented car, is the ability to listen to BBC
Mar 15, 2009
Food in Malaisie, Cambodge, Inde….
Original Blogger URL: https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2009/03/food-in-malaisie-cambodge-inde.html
Mar 15, 2009
Cultural Medical Lecture given at the Creighton University 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it3XquSg_ZI this is part 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Q1jFefq08&feature=related this is part 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCgp841lqeg&feature=related this is part 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODcMLxapJrw&feature=related this is part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHZdfqdKb
Feb 15, 2009
Three things the Blind Astrologer wanted me to do in India
Dear Friends: I was in India for six days, but in three states, three cities and three nights spent on trains! The Blind Astrologer had wanted me to do three…
Jan 15, 2009
What all Happens in the Course of One Day?
WHAT ALL HAPPENS IN THE COURSE OF A DAY Guruji speaks in his broken tones on a clear telephone call from Madras; he wants to do a Pooja, a kind…
Jan 15, 2009
Lonely Roads in an Indian Reservation
Lonely Roads, Bright Sun and a Blue Sky UmonHon Indian Reservation 13th January 2009 A very sound sleep, after the trouble getting home through 50 km winds playing ballet with…
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…
Jan 15, 2009
Saudade for Baracoa
stars have falen out of the sky adding their glitter to the silent ocean this night, we wait under the light of the moon for the stars to reappear clouds…
Jan 15, 2009
Welcome to France and to 2009
It is by the sacrifices you do for another person that you would be judged on the capacity to help that person. I have always done what I wanted, but…
Dec 15, 2008
What a Lovely Day in Paris
I had to make a couple of changes of Metro and suburban trains to reach the home of Dr Keuky. As always a pleasure to see him and the time…
Dec 15, 2008
Among the UmOnHoN people
with a Macussi Indian Child in Southern Guyana The world Chocolate is an Indian word..Aztec Xocalatl The journey to the Indians is always arduous.. first of all there is the…
Dec 15, 2008
The Bald Men of Sind… I have Sind
Historical Past and Modern Endocrinology General Napier of the British Army in the employ of the East India Trading Company, with a meagre resource of 500 european and 4500 “native”…
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…
Dec 15, 2008
Israel and the Family of Jewish People
. The general perception from outside about a visit to Israel, concerns itself with Security, Terrorism, religious and national fanaticism and the brashness of its inhabitants. I was reminded of…
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…
Dec 15, 2008
The Ordinary Opera of the Oppressed
An Ordinary Opera of the Oppressed There is no order, but the chaos of insides shine. Irreverently dressed, their lack of education shining through their very dull faces. They think…