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…
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
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…
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
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…