Mar 15, 2015
SOCIAL MEDIA AND DIABETES CARE IN AN INDIAN RESERVATION IN THE USA
Today is Wednesday, 11 th March 2015 In a tribal Clinic in a corner of the State of Nebraska, the isolation measured by the distance to the nearest café: 30…
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.
Mar 15, 2015
FOOD SYMBOLISM OF PURIM, THE UNIVERSAL MESSAGE OF THIS CELEBRATION
Today is 13 th of Adar 5775 Yesterday evening, walking home in the evening, the clear fading sky showed the outlines of a bright moon, almost full. Is the moon…
Mar 15, 2015
AMERICAN FOOD GUIDELINES, BRAZILIAN GUIDE TO BRAZILIAN EATING, MICROBIOME AND WHAT WE SHOULD EAT
AMERICAN FOOD GUIDELINES, BRAZILIAN GUIDE TO BRAZILIAN EATING, MICROBIOME AND WHAT WE SHOULD EAT United States Food and Drug Administration has issued a new set of rules to guide Americans…
Feb 15, 2015
WHY I LOVE CUBA SO VERY MUCH
Just twenty four hours ago, I left the crowded, unruly Terminal 2 of the Jose Marti International Airport in La Habana to arrive in the crowded, unruly but more diverse…
Feb 15, 2015
MULTIPLE NATIONALITIES, DISTINCT IDENTITIES BUT SIMILAR ASPIRATIONS: MULTIINDIVIDUALISM?
MULTIPLE NATIONALITIES, DISTINCT IDENTITIES BUT SIMILAR ASPIRATIONS I was at a Shopping Mall near my sister’s house on this sunny but breezy day. At the Apple Store, a young man…
Feb 15, 2015
MARC AUGE AND MULTIINDIVIDUALISM AND DIVERSITY: CUBA AND UNITED STATES
Well known French Ethnologist was asked about Identity and this was one of his answers: Actualmente predominan en la vida social las tendencias provenientes de la defensa del multiculturalismo, posturas…
Feb 15, 2015
MARCEL MAUSS, THE CONCEPT OF THE GIFT AND THE CURRENT DAY CUBAN SOCIETY
THE GIFT MARCEL MAUSS AND HIS LESSONS FOR CURRENT DAY CUBA Marcel Mauss, considered the Father of Modern Ethnology was the nephew of Emile Durkheim, considered the Father of Modern…
Jan 15, 2015
MEDICAL CONSULTATION IN AN AMERICAN INDIAN DIABETES CLINIC
MEDICAL CONSULTATION IN THE INDIAN COUNTRY I am proud to be a Physician to some Native American Indian tribes. On this day, this 54 year old Indian came to see…
Dec 15, 2014
YALDA IN IRAN, ISRAEL LOVES IRAN, STONEHENGE, CARNAC, CHICHEN ITZA, DZIBILCHALTUN ANDהילדה הקטנה שלי
December 21st, 2014, it would be the night of YALDA, celebrated in most of the Persian Speaking Middle East and Central Asia, also spilling into the Indian Subcontinent. But one…
Dec 15, 2014
HAPPY HANUKKAH, A MIRACLE FROM CUBA, MAZELTOV TO OBAMA, CASTRO AND ALAN GROSS
Today, more than ever, I am proud to say, Soy de Cuba, I am from Vedado! in La Havana. The above collage is from my neighbourhood of Vedado in Havana.…
Nov 15, 2014
SPICING UP YOUR HEALTH: BRING ON THE MASALA
MOGULS GOT IT RIGHT SPICE UP YOUR LIFE A BIT BRING ON THE ROGAN JOSH OR CHICKEN TIKKA MASALA On a recent visit to Miami, my good friend and I…
Nov 15, 2014
ANTHROPOLOGY IN MEDICINE: IS THERE AN ANTHROPOLOGIST IN THE HOUSE?
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE ANTHROPOLOGY IN MEDICINE IS THERE AN ANTHROPOLOGIST IN THE HOUSE? I was about to qualify as an Endocrinologist from the University of…
Nov 15, 2014
HOW TO LEAD AN INTERESTING LIFE: MOVIES AND MEMORY
There are some childhood memories, for me, the tropical torpor of the village of Kuala Belait, in Brunei, where wearing a newly acquired jacket which made me sweat heavily, I…
Nov 15, 2014
CULTURAL FRANKENSTEIN: CUBA AND THE WORLD
Australian researchers have uncovered how the massive DNA molecules that appear in some tumours are formed like Frankenstein's monster, stitched together from other parts of the genome. This solves a…
Nov 15, 2014
FROM INDIANS TO CUBANS A FREQUENT FLIER ODYSSEY
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE FROM INDIANS TO CUBANS A FREQUENT FLIER ODYSSEY At 630 AM, as NPR was broadcasting the news of the day, I drove…
Nov 15, 2014
WHEN THE STUDENT IS READY THE TEACHER APPEARS
The Photo is that of Sitting Bull Similarity of the American Indian ways of teaching or propagating their philosophy is much is in common with most of the ancient ways…
Oct 15, 2014
YOU BECOME RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT YOU HAVE TAMED.. THE WORDS OF ANTOINE ST EXUPERY
I was dropping off my sister at the Miami International Airport. The lovely Cuban woman behind the counter at the Versailles Coffee shop at the Departure area made me a…
Oct 15, 2014
DOES ANTHROPOLOGY HAVE A FUTURE?
DOES ANTHROPOLOGY HAVE A FUTURE? Yes. Why? The importance of OTHER is more relevant and urgent than ever before. How else are we going to understand, disparate cultural entities, interacting…