Feb 15, 2022
WE WILL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS
The 1942 movie CASABLANCA which was entirely filmed in studios in Los Angeles became a cult movie and to this day continues to be considered a special movie. I remember…
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.
Jan 15, 2022
FLIGHT TO NO DESTINATION, MOROCCO IS CLOSED SO I HAD TO CREATE AN ITINERARY
I had a ticket on British Airways to London and then on Iberia to Madrid and Marrakech. I was looking forward to returning to Riad 58 Blue and my new…
Jan 15, 2022
ENDOCRINOLOGIST-ANTHROPOLOGIST TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, IN THIS CASE THE AMERICAN INDIANS. LOS INDIOS
I am happy to have come to the USA for my post graduate studies in Endocrinology (excellent clinical education at Jackson Memorial Hospital of the University of Miami) but even…
Jan 15, 2022
SUCH A WONDERFUL TIME IN EUROPE WITH NEW LOVERS, AMAZED AT SR CARLOS AND FAMILY OF SR SEBASTIÃO
The Sun was setting in Miami. I had been back just over 24 hours ago. Yesterday I left that city of Light and Love. No city in North America comes…
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…
Nov 15, 2021
CABO VERDE. BRASIL. CUBA WORDS AND MUSIC RINGING IN MY EARS SODADE POR CESARIA EVORA AND NERUDA TO THE RESCUE
Bem conchê ess terra morena Ondê que cada criola é um serena Bem, q’ês nos céu tambê é de anil Êss nos terra piquinina É um padacinho di brasil Brasil,…
Nov 15, 2021
I DONT SPEAK PERSIAN BUT SOME PERSIAN SONGS DANCE AROUND MY HEART. THIS ONE BY SIAVASH GHOMAYSHI
I had driven north from Miami to be with my dear friends M & G. A very long conversation, broken only for a nouvelle americain cuisine dinner, followed, blessed by…
Oct 15, 2021
A SOMALI FILM WINS THE OUADOUGOU FILM FESTIVAL: HYPHENATED TALENTS AROUND THE WORLD: WAIT FOR ME PONT NEUF.
A Somali film exploring what people will do for love has won the grand prize at the prestigious Pan-African film festival in Burkina Faso. This is a prestigious film festival…
Oct 15, 2021
SYMBOLIC HEALING
In the West (and those developing countries influenced by it), healing systems of their culture is considered absolute and the others given the collective nomenclature: Complementary or alternative. The western…
Sep 15, 2021
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD …EACH GENERATION CREATING THEIR OWN IDENTITIES
I am not a fan of watching sports on TV but I like to be abreast of what is happening, especially from an anthropological point of view. When we were…
Sep 15, 2021
THIS JEWISH NEW YEAR FOR OUR SISTERS IN IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN..EVERYWHERE ELSE THEY NEED TO CELEBRATE
The Jewish New Year is upon us..Couldnt celebrate properly last year and this year seems we will celebrate on line with whoever wish to share these days.. This being human…
Aug 15, 2021
SAUDADE. AN UNEXPLAINED NOSTALGIA, ANOTHER PSYCHOLOGICAL BLOW OF THIS PANDEMIC
It was 4 pm, the mellow sun was about to set over the London skies. I was a student of Anthropology at London. I made myself a cup of tea.…
Aug 15, 2021
WE WILL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS ..
A favourite cult film among students was the classic CASABLANCA. and there is a line We will always have Paris .. Rick Blaine: Now, you've got to listen to me!…
Aug 15, 2021
AN ENJOYABLE DAY AT THE COUNTRYSIDE.. A MEGALITH VISIT THROWN IN, A NICE DINNER AND SOME NEW FRIENDS..
Brittany much like Wales with which it shares some pre historic connections is a motoring country. Quiberon is a popular spot for French visitors and at this time of the…
Jul 15, 2021
WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THE FRENCH PARADOX ? THEY DEFINITELY EAT BETTER. VARIETY. SMALL PORTION. FRESHLY COOKED.
I have been in this small Breton city/large village of Quiberon which is very tourist oriented, but I had come to visit people who live here. Our meals are usually…
Jun 15, 2021
ENDOCRINOLOGIST/ANTHROPOLOGIST: A MORNING IN THE OFFICE ..
I am not sure which one of my professors at the University of Melbourne teaching hospital told me: Choose a specialty that suits your personality. I had observed the various…
Jun 15, 2021
TO SOLVE THIS CLINICAL CASE, CALL IN DR JULIO FERREIRO
I had a chance to study at the Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami School of Medicine, twice during my professional formation as a Consultant Physician in Endocrinology. I was there…
May 15, 2021
WHAT IS THE INDIAN FOOD SERVED IN “INDIAN” RESTARAURANTS OUTSIDE INDIA
Landladies and Inn keepers may have offered "curried" dishes before then, but this was the first restaurant owned and operated by and an Indian, a Bengali Muslim Sake Dean Mohammed,…