Dec 15, 2017
SADHGURU AND THE NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS
It was good to get together with my KL friends, MunChingYong and her husband Fernando and Abid Hussain of Creative Stew. We ate at a Banana Leaf Restaurant called Ravi,…
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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.
Dec 15, 2017
SPIRITUALITY AND DIABETES: I AM VERY PROUD OF OUR OMAHA INDIAN PATIENTS WHO ARE USING INSULIN PUMP FOR THEIR TYPE 2
SPIRITUALITY AND TYPE 2 DIABETES AMONG AMERICAN INDIANS As part of a continuing education for our patients who suffer from Type 2 Diabetes, we offer an hour plus long discussion…
Nov 15, 2017
INDIAN CHEFS AND OWNER FROM THE INTERIOR: EL CIELO RESTAURANT IN LETICIA, COLOMBIAN AMAZONIA
INDIAN CHEFS AND OWNER FROM THE INTERIOR: EL CIELO RESTAURANT IN LETICIA, COLOMBIAN AMAZONIA I had discovered El Cielo, the Amazonian fusion resto, during my first visit to Leticia, and…
Aug 15, 2017
COINCIDENCES ARE NOT COINCIDENCES: WE LACK THE INTELLIGENCE TO UNDERSTAND IT, SAY THE NATIVE INDIANS
I have just left Havana, Cuba after a few very special days with my best friends in Miami. It was delightful, everything went smoothly, considering the impact of the hardship…
Jul 15, 2017
SOUTH KOREAN NURSING STUDENTS VISIT A NATIVE INDIAN HEALTH CLINIC
9 South Korean Nursing Students from Pusan, South Korea spent two days with us and many days with other members of the Health Department of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.…
Jun 15, 2017
A DAY OF TRANQUILITY AMONG THE OMAHA INDIANS OF NEBRASKA
Original Blogger URL: https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2017/06/a-day-of-tranquility-among-omaha.html
Jun 15, 2017
DOCTOR LOOSES HIS BET WITH AN OMAHA INDIAN PATIENT IN A DEMONSTRATION OF SYMBOLIC HEALING
I love being with the Omaha Indians, some of whom are people I counsel about their health but most of them are my friends. I feel that they have a…
Apr 15, 2017
TEN DAYS OF LIFE WITH THE OMAHA INDIANS
On the foyer of the Omaha Indian Health Clinic, one can see photographs of their ancestors who went to Paris in 1898 and they were away for nearly two years…
Mar 15, 2017
SHABBAT SHALOM FROM A TED MED RESEARCH SCHOLAR UMONHON INDIAN COUNTRY USA
It is a slow saturday morning here in the Reservation of the UmonHon Indians. Today is the last day I have to send in evaluations of the 7 speakers assigned…
Feb 15, 2017
FALSE INDIANS OF CUBA
I had presented at a Latin American Congress of Academics my findings about the FALSE TAINOS of Baracoa. People who have some genetic admixture of Native Blood in Cuba (estimated…
Dec 15, 2016
AN ENDOCRINOLOGIST TO THE INDIANS : LIVING IS ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS
I have just spent ten days with the Omaha, the original inhabitants of the State of Nebraska in the USA. They live in an isolated part of the world, but…
Oct 15, 2016
WELCOME HOME AT THE UMONHON NATION: SHABBAT SHALOM FROM THE INDIAN COUNTRY
I am proud to be a Consultant Endocrinologist to the UmonHon Nation in the USA. Dutifully I appear at the appointed dates, as previously arranged with the Health Programme that…
Oct 15, 2016
THE TEDIOUS ITINERARY OF A PHYSICIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST TO THE INDIANS
The tedious itinerary of a Physician Anthropologist Most of you will have absolutely no interest in this itinerary, I am putting this down on paper because I am so confused,…
Jul 15, 2016
QUIBERON IN FRANCE TO THE OMAHA INDIANS OF NEBRASKA: LIFE IS ALL ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS
Tire-Bouchon is the two carriage train that goes from the popular seaside town of Quiberon to Auray where one can catch major trains to various parts of Brittany as well…
Jun 15, 2016
GREAT AMBASSADORS FOR KERALA : VIJAYAN AND MOHANA THE TEA SHOP OWNERS OF COCHIN INDIA
I have had a very long standing relationship with Cochin in India, perhaps the ancient Jewish connection. A few months ago, my cochini jewish friend Elias sent me the above…
Jun 15, 2016
NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS VISITING MALAYSIA FOR THEIR FIRST OVERSEAS TRIP: SUMMARY OF AN INTERVIEW
Interview with two Native American Indians visiting Malaysia for the first time I had the pleasure of accompanying a young Native American Indian couple of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska,…
Feb 15, 2016
EATING FOR ONE WEEK IN COCHIN IN INDIA
I am unashamedly fond of the little township of Fort Cochin but certainly not for its food. The quality of food in the tourist parts of Fort Cochin is just…
Feb 15, 2016
MY LIFE OF FEAST AND FAMINE.. HAVANA IS THE MOVABLE FEAST..MIAMI INDIAN COUNTRY COCHIN FOR VARIOUS REASONS
I always look forward to going back to La Havana. Unbridled affections the chance to be yourself and spontaneous. I understand fully when a friend of mine, on his visit…