Jun 15, 2011
SACRED TRASH OF CAIRO GENIZA: JEWISH REFLECTIONS
When you are Jewish, you can look at the world from the view point of the Other and feel left out or ostracized, depending upon the country and the century…
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, 2011
LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY OF AMERICA-NEW YORK
As Medical Students, we had a lunch time talk by a visitor (appropriately dark skinned), about Cross Cultural Sensitivity and we were told that we had to be sensitive about…
Mar 15, 2011
SOLITUDE IS NOT LONELINESS
HOW SOLITUDE SHAPES YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS This is a continuation of my previous post: Network in Social Network Occasionally, an email arrives inviting to join Face Book or some of the…
Mar 15, 2011
Endocrinologist/Medical Anthropologist, an insight into the life of one
Wandering Medical Anthropologist and Endocrinologist: A prescription for a Stress Free Life Day 1 March 4 th , 2011 EuroStar. Paris Gare du Nord to St Pancras, London. 2h 32…
Mar 15, 2011
A Visit to the British Museum: Grandeur and Longing
thai golden café, museum street, central London visit to the british museum the same imposing columns, that greeted a young medical student from the antipodes you enter, the first turn…
Feb 15, 2011
CULTURE OF GEOGRAPHY OF BIRTH
Culture of Geography of Birth? I was told of a forthcoming wedding in Paris. A Mali born French Nanny in her early thirties with a 12 year old daughter will…
Feb 15, 2011
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY MALAYSIA 14 FEBRUARY 2011
Malaysia warns Muslims of Valentine's Day 'trap' Muslims make up nearly two-thirds of Malaysia's 28 million population Malaysia stepped up a campaign to stop Muslims celebrating Valentine's Day - labelling…
Jan 15, 2011
Globalization in a Paris Suburb: an Anthropological View
Paris Suburbs: Shopping for Everyday Goods Globalization at Work This morning I went shopping in one of the western suburbs of Paris and it was truly a lesson in Globalization…
Jan 15, 2011
CUBAN TENDERNESS
Cuban Tenderness Cuando me cuentas de tus dias siento nostalgia de que habitemos lugares tan distantes, no poder tenerte mas cerca, para poder pasar mas tiempo juntos, visitarte y que…
Dec 15, 2010
Symbolic Healing among the Kickapoo of Mexico
I have a sister, Menacuatucua. Eventhough I do not belong to her tribe (The Traditional Kickapoo who have homes in Eagle Pass, Texas and Nacimiento de los Negros at the…
Nov 15, 2010
First Snowflakes of the Season in Paris…Cambodian Food at the Japanese Quartier of Paris
While the Americans were celebrating Thanksgiving Day, an important holiday for them, there was nothing in Paris to remind one that such an important holiday of eating and celebrating and…
Oct 15, 2010
Cochini Jewish Influences in Cochin INDIA
Yet another gift from Cochin I had the good luck to make friends with a young Cochini, Thoufeek. He is very talented in Calligraphy and we are fortunate that he…
Oct 15, 2010
It is Nice to Dream about San Cristobal de la Habana
Reveries of a Born Traveler Three days after my birth, an astrologer was consulted who drew the map of the stars at the time of birth (a chart I still…
Sep 15, 2010
Continental Airlines and Me.. a perfect fit for a Frequent Flier
it never ceases to amaze me the luck I have with Continental Airlines! I am writing this in Miami having just arrived here on CO 190 a 737-500, safely transported…
Aug 15, 2010
LOVE IN THE TIME OF THE MONSOONS IN BURMA
LOVE IN THE TIME OF MONSOON IN BURMA AUGUST 2010 I felt that I may not have another chance to visit Myanmar/Burma in the near future, so took this chance…
Aug 15, 2010
Good Bye.. to my favourite Part of Asia
""> 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false A FAREWELL TO KL AND POINTS BEYOND… It is a strange sensation going to a country, knowing that…
Jul 15, 2010
A day of Travel Part 2 July 8, 2010 ZRH-MIA
A Day of Travel Part 2 July 8, 2010 ZRH TO MIA 12 55 pm Seat 4 D A glass of champagne 7852 km to Miami (4879 miles). Incredible when…
Jun 15, 2010
La Casualidad no es tan Casual BY CHANCE?
Chance, Casualidad..we often wonder. . Does chance exist? or is it accidental and a fragment of ones imagination? We can always go to the Philosophers, the indigenous ones with thousands…