Apr 15, 2015
SHABBAT SHALOM FROM FORT COCHIN IN MALABAR COAST
SHABBAT SHALOM FROM COCHIN DR.YEHUDA, La Habana, Cuba Friday, 20 th March 2015. The morning began brightly enough, Rexy the owner driver of the car arrived promptly at 7 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.
Apr 15, 2015
WARM, FRIENDLY, GENEROUS FRIENDS AND SEDER IN MIAMI
Just a few days ago I was in Fort Cochin, was wondering where I would spend the first night of Pesach! No invitation was forthcoming from Portland, Oregon so I…
Apr 15, 2015
MALAYALEE MEMORY
I wrote this in 2008! On my recent visit in March 2015, it was as true as it was before: The Malayalee Memory or is it everywhere they are In…
Apr 15, 2015
Train Journeys: Cochin to Bangalore..an Observation
The train is called SuperFast which is a relative term here, instead of taking 12 hours to cover 560 km, today they would do it in ten hours and a…
Mar 15, 2015
GASPAR DA GAMA…FIRST OF THE MANY FOREIGN JEWS ON COCHIN COAST
I had only one purpose looking through the graves at the Grave Island off the coast of Zanzibar. Would I be able to identify any Jewish names amidst the medieval…
Mar 15, 2015
44 hours of Journey from North American Indians to Indians of India
It took me forty four hours of travel By car from the Indian Reservation to the airport in Omaha, Nebraska and then a short flight to Chicago. Waited for the…
Mar 15, 2015
FEW HOURS IN COCHIN.. VERY EXCITING INDEED
I returned to Cochin after an absence of five years, which is very long for me with regard to any country in my world view. I had come primarily to…
Mar 15, 2015
BUDDHISTS AND AMERICAN INDIANS: COMMON PHILOSOPHICAL THREADS
On Reading about Buddhist Philosophy Peace in the world begins with us What works? What works to free the mind from Suffering? What works to engender the heart of compassion?…
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
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…
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
GREETINGS TO MY MALAYSIAN, INDONESIAN, AMERICAN INDIAN FRIENDS AND FAMILY, ALSO TO MUSLIMS EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD
DEAR FRIENDS I send these greetings to you because I consider my relationship with you to be important. This long winded thoughts put down on paper is my way of…
Nov 15, 2014
POST MODERNITY AND THE FUTURE OF COMMUNICATIONS
Post Modernity and the Future of Communications My sister told me that she had lunch with six adults and as many children at a nice restaurant in Cayman Islands, it…
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
WELCOME IMAM FIDEL MOHAMMED, ACCORDING TO THE PRESIDENT OF TURKEY
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE MUSLIMS IN CUBA, WELCOME TO FIDEL MOHAMMED FROM PROF HONORARY TURKISH PRESIDENT If Barack Obama ever said that it was not Columbus…
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…