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…
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.
Feb 15, 2011
Flight of Fleas and Medical Doctors.. is there a Connection?
Fleas can jump two hundred times the length of their own bodies, which is roughly about thirteen inches. If a grown man could jump 200 times the length of their…
Feb 15, 2011
Racism against SAN Bushmen in Southern Africa
wh en we think of racism and oppression, the picture that comes to our mind is the one meted out by Europeans or those of european ancestry against the native…
Jan 15, 2011
THE FRENCH PARADOX AND THE SLOW DIGESTED CARBOHYDRATES
French Paradox: an additional piece: Slowly digested or Undigested Carbohydrates. Another Piece of the French Paradox: Why French are not fat or have higher Cardiovascular Diseases. Most people working in…
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
Shekhinah or Love of the Universe: Trip from Paris to the Blue House among the Indians
Air France 0636 Boeing 777-300 Paris Charles de Gaulle international airport to Houston International Airport 10 th January 2011 0701 train from Becon les Bruyers in Paris to Gare San…
Jan 15, 2011
Toi La Bacsi: Vietnam Cross Cultural Medicine at 38 000 feet AF 7770-300
TOI LA BACSI: Cross Cultural Medicine at 38 000 feet I kept on saying to the very old lady, now slumped on her seat. She was flailing her arms and…
Jan 15, 2011
Express your Gratitude, says the American Indian Wisdom
Gratitude List for 2010 As the year 2010 ends, it is good to recollect those people on whose shoulders the great fortune of 2010 came riding to us. Without them,…
Nov 15, 2010
MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL OBSERVATION OF WESTERN MEDICINE PRACTICED IN FIVE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
Western Medicine is practiced without empathy and understanding of the person, in a totally un-holistic way in all the five countries mentioned. The Cardiologist in Miami was friendly, the Cardiologist…
Nov 15, 2010
Welcome Abstinence from Internet ….CUBA mi isla Rica
I am going into Exile, to use the abused word in MIami among Cuban Immigrants, most of whom since about 1962 have been economic migrants, from Internet. An extremely welcome…
Nov 15, 2010
Where is Quiberon? Kiberen?
Yet another Journey is about to begin: this one a very pleasant one to look forward to, to two places that I love, one day in Miami which would include…
Oct 15, 2010
Yet another General Strike Looms…
I have a generational legacy to keep up, my Grand Father and Father were always on the side of the workers, even though they both held jobs in Education and…
Oct 15, 2010
What All Happens in the Course of One Week?
LH Miami to Frankfurt to Kuala Lumpur. Reunion with Friends over a Chinese Dinner. Brunch at Mandarin Oriental. Pedicure/Manicure by the greatest Pedicurist in the world, GS at A Cut…
Oct 15, 2010
The Deep Legacy of Khmer in Mekong Delta. Soc Trang Province
When I visited Cambodia regularly in the past, I was vaguely aware of a Khmer population in the delta region of South Vietnam. I had expected pockets of small communities…
Sep 15, 2010
Thinking about a Quote by Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell: “there is far too much work done in the world...immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous.” These are ruminations, pardon the pun, of a…
Sep 15, 2010
A note on Happiness…
We all want to be Happy.. is it a sensation of feeling High? a sense of contendment? the rush of acquiring material goods? Are Rich people happier than the Poor?…
Sep 15, 2010
I Am Not Responsible I Am Around People
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE I am around people who are self made in the business world, junior executives, partners, lawyers, accountant chiefs, and absolutely dislike their collective aim that bottom…
Jul 15, 2010
Yet another Adios
Get Your Own Map View Larger Map Another lover of Cuba, the great Poet Pablo Neruda.. had written Se sabe que el que vuelve no se fue, y asi la…