Dec 15, 2021
A NICE DAY OF FRIENDSHIP. SOUTH FLORIDA IN USA
My closest friends in South Florida live 120 km north from where I stay in Miami. The Highway takes you there in less than an hour and half, allowing me…
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.
Dec 15, 2021
COLD FULL MOON, THREE PLANET AND A COUPLE OF COMETS ORCHESTRA AND SHABBAT SHALOM AND DIA DE SAN LAZARO
San Lazaro is a Spirit from the pantheon of Cuban Syncretic Space, he is a Healer, a good Spirit to have on your side during these isolated days of suffering.…
Dec 15, 2021
OMICRON IS HERE. ADVICE TO TRAVELERS. N95 OR KN95? TO BE N95 OR NOT TO BE KN95?
I am writing this for my family in Miami and also Cayman Islands as well as other travelers including my colleagues who are traveling during this holiday season. People should…
Dec 15, 2021
TONIGHT 21 DEC 2021 IS YALDA NIGHT IN IRAN AND I FEEL LONELY HERE IN MIAMI
YALDA the longest night is celebrated in IRAN where it must have originated while it was Zoroastrian centuries before the Muslim conquest. It is also celebrated in some parts of…
Dec 15, 2021
ENJOYING YALDA THE LONGEST NIGHT IN IRAN WHILE SUN IS SHINING HERE IN MIAMI ..ISRAEL AND IRAN FRIENDSHIP
21 december 2021 Winter Solstice Yalda celebrated in Iran Iran is 8 1/2 hours time zones away from Miami. So i was able to enjoy the feasts and getting together…
Nov 15, 2021
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO SMILE…. YOU WILL LOOK FOR ME AND I WILL BE GONE , I KNOW MY SOUL
Today has been a lovely day No one to disturb my peace, near and far A nice sensation when one is able to help, the philanthropy of time and knowledge…
Nov 15, 2021
THE FUTURE IS ALEADY HERE: YUVAL NOAH HARARI AND THE PROGRESSION IS AT BREAKNECK SPEED
I had come back to the hotel after visiting a village of Ticuna Indians along the Colombian Amazon, The hotel is certainly one of the more pleasant places to stay…
Nov 15, 2021
DIA DE LOS MUERTOS 2 NOV MEXICO, FOR MANY OTHERS THE DAY OF THE LIVING DEAD and PABLO NERUDA IN RANGOON
It had been raining, the day with the Indigenous people living in the Park has been emotional. Two colleagues needed help, one talked about her husband and the other one…
Nov 15, 2021
BRITISH AIRWAYS 207 LONDON TO MIAMI. A GOOD TIME SPENT ON AIR. A PLEASANT JOURNEY OF CIVILIZED SERVICE
I am not in the habit of writing Trip Reports (there are plenty of websites for that), but one thing remains that I do enjoy flying and my own little…
Nov 15, 2021
ARRIVAL IN MARRAKECH AND YOUSSEF THE DRIVER
Original Blogger URL: https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2021/11/arrival-in-marrakech-and-youssef-driver.html
Nov 15, 2021
AFRO BERBER CULTURE AND BERT FLINT . AN AFTERNOON IN MARRAKECH
Bert Flint, a dutch ethnologist passionately befriended studied and helped and collected artifacts and postulated the nativeness of BERBER people of North West Africa and the sub Sahelian branch of…
Nov 15, 2021
MOROCCO IS NOT AN ARAB COUNTRY, IT IS A BERBER COUNTRY OCCUPIED BY ARABS WHO CAME FROM BAGHDAD AND THE EAST
Currently there is a. great fascination in the west for "occupied lands and peoples". A deep examination would reveal a group of people who do not have a wholistic understanding…
Nov 15, 2021
MY NEW FRIENDS IN MARRAKECH..SMILES AND HELLO AND ALWAYS MADE TO FEEL WELCOME
If I stayed one month in the Medina of Marrakech, i am sure I will have to say Hello to hundreds of people. People remember you and of course, being…
Nov 15, 2021
THE JEWISH CEMETERY OF MARRAKECH. SHABBAT SHALOM TO ALL MY RELATIVES REGARDLESS OF THEIR RELIGION
I have visited various Jewish cemeteries around the world where only memories linger on in the streets where Jewish people lived and died for hundreds of years. Penang, Malaysia Cochin,…
Nov 15, 2021
THE MELLAH OF MARRAKECH, THE JEWISH QUARTER OF MARRAKECH MOROCCO
On my first full day in Marrakech I decided to visit and savour the Jewish Quarter or MELLAH of Marrakech. I was staying at a Riad in the Medina and…
Nov 15, 2021
EATING IN MARRAKECH. I PROMISED TO EAT ONLY MOROCCAN FOOD DURING MY STAY AND IT WAS EASY
I cannot imagine eating Italian food in Kuala Lumpur or Burgers in Cochin or not to indulge in khmer cuisine in Siem Reap or not to savour the sumptuous flavours…
Nov 15, 2021
SPENDING TIME WITH GOOD FRIENDS IS A TREASURE OF LIFE
The Covid 19 isolation has affected every one and it is now slowly coming coming unbundled. Our fears are now confronted by science and we all have been vaccinated which…
Nov 15, 2021
WHAT IS HAPPENING TO CUBA? HOW CAN I GO HOME?
Today is November 15, 2021 and flights to Cuba will commence after a very long shut down. But checking at the airfares to Havana from Miami, you would notice that…