Sep 15, 2012
INDIANS SAY: POVERTY MAY BE FINE BUT MISERY IS NOT: MURAKAMI IN THE BLUE HOUSE
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE The alarm rang at 0630 as I was already opening my eyes. I am in the Blue House among the Omaha Indians.…
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.
Sep 15, 2012
SHANAH TOVAH TO OUR BRETHREN IN IRAN
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE SHANA TOVAH TO OUR BRETHREN IN IRAN This is the last Shabbat before the Jewish New Year 5773. I had two pieces…
Sep 15, 2012
AUGUST A MONTH OF GOOD NEWS FROM NORTH EAST WEST SOUTH
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE A Good Month of News that warms the heart.. I left IAH on 1 August 2012 on Qatar Airways to DOHA and…
Sep 15, 2012
SOUTH EAST ASIA FEELS NATURALLY HOME
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE ASEAN…a friendly and welcoming environment Ever since I became aware of travel, I have always tried to cover regions. The Pacific was…
Aug 15, 2012
HAPPY DOCTORS DAY : TOLERANCE HAS ITS REWARDS
Doctors day is celebrated on various day on various continents, in Cuba, it is the birthday of Carlos Finlay that is celebrated as the Doctors Day. Today is the Birthday…
Aug 15, 2012
BREAKING THE FAST.. A JEW IN THE LAND OF THE MOSLEMS
BUKA BERSAMAN.. Exactly 44 hours after leaving the Blue House among the Indians, I walked out of the customs hall at the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport at CGK in Jakarta..Visa on…
Jul 15, 2012
languorous lunch of the Australians in Paris
A LANGUOROUS LUNCH OF AUSTRALIANS IN PARIS Good Friends of mine had arrived from Melbourne a couple of days earlier, I arrived from Miami via Bruxelles just yesterday A warm…
Jul 15, 2012
SOME GOOD NEWS FROM IRAN
Some Good News about Iran These days, one hardly hears anything good from Iran. Just yesterday USA tightened the sanctions against Iran, banning certain people and companies including some tanker…
Jun 15, 2012
WHY I LIKE TRAVELLING TO/FROM/IN THE USA
Going Home, A good day to Fly.. Websites, newspapers and radio are full of horror stories of air travel within the USA, but they are just talking about the structural…
Jun 15, 2012
THE AMULET EFFECT: SOCIAL ASPECTS OF DIABETES CARE
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE WHAT IS AMULET EFFECT IN THE CONTEXT OF MEDICAL/HEALTHCARE (dedicated to Dr SB at Pine Ridge Indian Health Services) Health is not…
Jun 15, 2012
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARK MERRICK, AN OMAHA INDIAN
Last year, W S, an UmonHon, had announced publicly that from now on I was her brother. According to the Omaha Kinship system (the first kinship studied thoroughly so all…
Jun 15, 2012
HEALING CEREMONY
I have been praying for three consecutive nights and also tomorrow, making it four, for the health of a person close to the two people that I love in Paris,…
Jun 15, 2012
INCONGRUITIES OF LIFE IN LA HABANA, CUBA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE MY LIFE IN HAVANA, CUBA The Incongruities of Living and Experiencing Havana : At terminal 2 of the Jose Marti International Airports…
Jun 15, 2012
LIMINALITY: AN ANTHROPOLOGIST BETWEEN CUBA AND LOS INDIOS
THE MIRAGE OF YOUR FOOTPRINT In the course of one week I have gone through several geographical and emotional changes: my intense life in La Habana to the affections of…
Jun 15, 2012
Qantas in Havana, Cuba
As I approached the Terminal 2 of Jose Marti International Airport in La Habana, Cuba, imagine my surprise when I saw the familiar red and white Kangaroo Tail of a…
Jun 15, 2012
HAPPY TO PRAY FOR THOSE I LOVE
A silence. I saw my teacher dozing on a chair on the left; two others sat with their eyes closed. A breeze from the cornfields. Suddenly a flap opens, and…
May 15, 2012
THE HUMBLE MAN OF BOGOR
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE UNEXPECTED PLEASURES OF TRAVEL THE HUMBLE MAN OF BOGOR 2 May 2012 the flight from Singapore touched down at Spoekarno-Hatta International Airport…
Apr 15, 2012
Medical Anthropology in Paris The Cuban Connection
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Medical Anthropology in Paris- The Cuban Connection Soon after graduating from the Medical Anthropology programme in London, I was requested to give…