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.The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
During the years I lived in Europe, I had to tragically witness three terrorist attacks, two of them involving mainly Jews and the last one in November 2015 of the…
Life is not about the regrets about the PAST nor about the anxieties of the FUTURE. As I sit here at the Admirals Club at Heathrow Airport in London, I…
INTERDENOMINATIONAL VENERATION IN FORT COCHIN, INDIA HARMONY AMONG THE INHABITANTS OF ALL FAITHS For curious reasons, Fort Cochin, the little peninsula jetting into the Backwaters, facing the Arabian sea in…
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…
ONE WEEK IN THE USA: A TRAVELOGUE This is a not an ordinary travelogue. I have just spent one week in the USA. I flew in from London on American…
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…
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…
SUPERMODERNITY AND TRADITION IN ONE DAY MIAMI TO THE OMAHA INDIAN RESERVATION. Hey, Doc, said my Omaha Indian teacher, I don't know where Belgium is, but it does not matter,…
TRADITION IN A SUPER MODERN WORLD I would be in a hotel room, trying to catch up on NEWS, usually in English, whether BBC or CNN International, rarely Al Jazeera,…
SHANAH TOVAH TIKKATEVU WELCOME TO THE JEWISH NEW YEAR 5775 This New Year, as I dip the apple slices into the honey, I would remember fondly the various conversations around…
SPEND A MORNING WITH AN AUSTRALIAN/CUBAN/JEWISH ANTHROPOLOGIST ENDOCRINOLOGIST IN BRUSSELS, BELGIUM The morning was welcomingly fresh; the temperature was a mild 57 F/11 C with no sign of rain. The…
When you think of Dining Spots around the world, or Dining in general, the every day food of America does not come to mind. Visitors to this country are amazed…
IT is 14th of July 2014 Bastille Day Fete Nacional France Celebrations Parades Fireworks yes in France but I am in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Since I have family in France…
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…
Eleven articles arrived on a peer reviewed Diabetes and Metabolism Journal this morning. What was very interesting to note was that the authors were not from the usual developed countries…
INFLAMMATION AS THE COMMON PATHWAY TO CHRONIC DISEASES IN 2002, I was wandering around the streets of Johor Bahru, Malaysia when I came across books being sold at a Hindu…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE THE AGELESS MAN OF KUALA TRENGGANU For those who hide behind their identities and the exteriors of themselves and their skin as…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE AN ENDOCRINOLOGIST THINKS ABOUT CHOLERA CHOLERA AND DIABETES IS THERE A METAPHORIC CONNECTION? When we talk about a CURE for Cholera, what…
