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.The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
CARAVANSARY AT TABRIZ IRAN Eventhough we tend to associate Caravansary with the Silk Road and the Arab and Turkic traders, they were found in Iran hundreds of years earlier, during…
After writing the title, I realized that I had used the word OTHER to describe the 99.8% of the world's population who are not JEWISH. Usually we are the perpetual…
This is one of the best known quotes about Paris in the English Language and the idea of a moveable feast entered the language. Currently the moveable feast in my…
The incredible tranquility of my home in Havana elevated me to a level of consciousness that i truly felt . Adding to those embers was my love for Iran.. directly…
THANKS TO MY FRIEND DR. BIJAYA FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY Indigenous peoples are inheritors and practitioners of unique cultures and ways of relating to people and the environment .…
Original Blogger URL: https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2022/07/for-students-of-anthropology-at-sagar.html
Original Blogger URL: https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2022/07/can-diabetes-be-reversed.html
Rumi says: Everyone is sleeping and I counted the stars until morning, but I did not sleep. Let me say that the sleep has gone from my eyes so much…
During this month of July, I have been travelling at a hectic pace and my thoughts had to be recorded on paper, which i will upload later. But this also…
For a rich and developed country (slipping in the ranks as days roll by and other progressive countries are stepping in), USA has one of the most complicated medical care…
Medical Anthropology includes the study of Food and Nutrition.
Today has been a wonderful day. Nature put on a show to tell us who is the supreme power. Xango put in an appearance with powerful thunders that shook the…
As a child I was very keen on Geography and knew about the three GUYANAs.. British, Dutch and the French. The French Guyanne is still part of France and the…
Original Blogger URL: https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2022/06/a-special-moon-over-miami-love-to-my.html
Once you arrive in Suriname, you have to get used to the various languages and various cultures. Each of the cultural groups maintain their individual identity while being proud of…
Surinamese are very friendly, and the receptionists at the Hotel Palacio in Paramaribo were no exception. I have been looking forward to escaping from the narrow-mindedness of the discourse in…
During my short stay in Paramaribo, i had many conversations with this Jawanese Surinamese lady who directed me to deGadri resto by the river for surinamese food and also to…
A euphoric mood is characterized by feelings of strong happiness, excitement, and well-being. It is an amplified sense of pleasure that can have a number of different causes. (from American…
