Jun 15, 2014
WANDERING JEW: THE SHABBATH VARIATIONS
I have been fortunate enough to be traveling on an irregularly irregular basis all around the world since 1993, and since 2002 fairly regularly to South East Asia. I have…
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.
Jun 15, 2014
BODY AS PROTEST; THE CUBAN CONTEXT
BODY AS A PROTEST: THE CUBAN CONTEXT Two very distinct, contrary to each other, changes has been occurring to the Cuban Bodies over the course of few years. 1. Overweight…
Apr 15, 2014
DO THEY SERVE MATZOH ON AMERICAN AIRLINES? LAMENT FOR A MISSED SEDER BY A JEW WHO WANDERED A BIT TOO MUCH
One of the earliest lines of Spanish Poetry that made me want to learn the tongue of Cervantes, was, read on my way from school in Sweden to home in…
Mar 15, 2014
MALAYSIAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 370 KUL-PEK AND THE SORROW FELT AROUND THE WORLD
It is morning in Miami, Florida, USA, nearly half the world away from a tragedy unfolding over South East Asia. MH 370 has disappeared over the ocean, piloted by a…
Mar 15, 2014
EXERCISE, WEIGHT MAINTENANCE AND CALORIES
EXERCISE, WEIGHT MAINTENANCE AND CALORIES When discussing Exercise habits, many would confess that they walk for a few minutes each day or jog or go on the treadmill. Any form…
Feb 15, 2014
TRAVEL THAT EVOKES THE SENSATION OF CHILDHOOD INNOCENCE
TRAVEL: THE EVOKED SENSATION OF CHILDHOOD INNOCENCE I have been extraordinarily lucky when it comes to travel. Starting at age 2 ½ that was not my decision, but seriously since…
Feb 15, 2014
AROUND THE WORLD EVERY EIGHTY DAYS !
AROUND THE WORLD EVERY EIGHTY DAYS I have been lucky to have been able to combine my profession (Medicine) , my passion (Anthropology) and Travel, almost always combining the three.…
Feb 15, 2014
QATAR AIRWAYS AND THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL AVIATION
QATAR AIRWAYS CHANGING THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL AVIATION I just had a chance to fly Qatar Airways from CGK to DOH, use their Premium Terminal there and carry on to…
Jan 15, 2014
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR OF THE HORSE, HAPPY LUNAR YEAR OF THE TET ..AND OF COURSE THE KICKAPOO NEW YEAR
HAPPY CONTENT YEAR OF THE HORSE FOR MY CHINESE FRIENDS PROSPEROUS LUNAR YEAR OF TET TO MY VIETNAMESE FRIENDS I was quite happy to obtain a ticket from Miami to…
Jan 15, 2014
CULTURAL DIVERSITY, NOW AND BEFORE IT WAS, MULTICULTURALISM
COULD CULTURAL DIVERSITY DISAPPEAR THE SAME WAY AS CROSS CULTURE AWARENESS WITH A SOCIAL ACTIVIST IN HANGA ROA While I was studying Anthropology in London, the buzzword of the day…
Jan 15, 2014
DOCTORING IN RAPA NUI
I was mulling over an email while walking towards the Church, at the end of the street. My friend in Miami was talking about Shlomo Carlebach whose name had been…
Jan 15, 2014
DO NOT OVERLOAD ON CARBOHYDRATES ON LONG DISTANCE TRAVEL: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE
A letter to my Carbohydrate Guru A Question on this first day of the year 2014 Can Champagne give you Hypoglycaemia? The breakfast, bought at the village market place, was…
Jan 15, 2014
2013 A GOOD YEAR FOR TRAVEL
2013 has been a good year for travel..the usual culprits UK, which to me still remains London France, which this year were visits to Quiberon, Bretagne Belgium, where it was…
Jan 15, 2014
CUBA AND INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN MEDICINE
Most westerners, americans of europeans, hardly know about the magnanimous Cuban efforts at Humanitarian Medicine. When people think of Humanitarian Medicine in the west, they think of flying out when…
Dec 15, 2013
CHANCE FAVOURS A PREPARED MIND.. IN THIS CASE SIMILAR THINKING MINDS.. A CONCLUDING NOTE FROM OMAN
Things happen for a reason. Who would have thought that a smile that was returned on a cold morning in March 2012 at Omaha Airport would have led to so…
Nov 15, 2013
YOU ARE WHAT YOU READ: ASK YOUR DOCTOR WHETHER HE PAYS FOR WHAT HE READS!
YOU ARE WHAT YOU READ Be careful not to become Ignorant! My teacher at University of Miami, Dr Howard Lessner (olav ha shalom) once told me, noting my desire to…
Nov 15, 2013
THRIFTY GENE TO METABOLIC SYNDROME : HOW THE HUNTER GATHERERS BECAME OVERWEIGHT OR OBESE
LOW HDL CHOLESTEROL AMONG AMERICAN INDIANS, HYPERCHOLESTROLEMIA IN JAMAICA AND A CUBAN/AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGIST In the Medical Literature, there has been a lot of hullabaloo made about the importance of…
Nov 15, 2013
JEWS OF MALABAR, CHANUKKIA AMONG THE AMERICAN INDIANS
JEWS OF MALABAR, A MAKE DO MENORAH AND THE CHANUKKIAH LAMP AMONG THE INDIANS This invitation arrived from Cochin, India today: As the Jewish community is dwindling in Malabar, more…