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.
I have just returned from the Colombian Amazon and the best part of the trip was my renewing the spirit of fraternity and solidarity with the Ticuna Indians who inhabit…
I was not aware of this book, nor of the reviewer a Canadian by the name of Bhupinder Singh. I have reproduced the entire review for people interested in the…
THE WARAO OR THE PEOPLE OF THE CANOE have lived along the River Orinoco for centuries and survived with their natural skills and abilities. The outsiders came and took some…
One week ago today, I was sauntering along the Amazon River, getting to know the TIKUNA or Maguta people. Today I am with the Omaha people of Nebraska, USA. The…
Early on in my association with the Indigenous North Americans, they reminded me, We know the answers but no one asks them. Also the well meaning, Euro-Americans come to the…
CHRONOLOGY OF METABOLIC DETERIORATION WITH INCREASING OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY AMONG AMERICAN INDIANS When I began working with the American Indians, I was shown a copy of a painting by Seth…
Normal 0 false false false false EN-US JA X-NONE INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE: NOSTALGIA FOR NAMIBIA When I was reading Anthropology at London, had a chance to visit the San people of…
They are one of the 18 groups of Indigenous peoples who inhabited Malaysia before Malays, Chinese and Indians arrived on these shores. Their linguistic connection to Austronesian Languages and MonKhmer…
A reflection on Suriname’s food culture, hospitality, and the sweetness that carries through daily life.
A medical-anthropological reflection on hidden stress, inflammation, and the slow currents beneath measurable disease.
“To travel is to feel.” - Fernando Pessoa I went to Pinecrest today, though it no longer exists. Not in the way that towns exist-with a centre, a rhythm, a…
A physician-anthropologist’s reflection on breath, physiology, and the clinical meaning of contemplative practice.
A field reflection on humility, Indigenous wisdom, and the difference between knowledge and presence.
A short field note on compassion, ordinary encounters, and the unexpected pleasures of a working day.
A comparative note on how different spiritual traditions warn against turning practice into ego.
A reflection on spiritual materialism, ego, and the danger of turning belief into justification.
A reflection on medicine as relationship: food, listening, care, and presence beyond the clinic.
Along the vast arteries of the Amazon River, Indigenous societies have raised infants for millennia without what the modern world considers indispensable: diapers. This is not an absence born of…
