Apr 15, 2009
April in Paris
Paris, France 1st April 2009 Dear Friends The sun is shining brightly outside. It is 5 pm and the temperature is 16 C. (60 F) I see people walking around…
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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.
Apr 15, 2009
Overweight Atheletes of America
This evening I witnessed a group of young Indians joyously playing a sport they adore.. Basketball. there was much happiness in the air and the efforts were strenuous. One can…
Apr 15, 2009
A Medical Anthropologist at large
Medical Anthropology is not about medicine, but about Society. It is a tool in which we can divert the gaze of the academics who focus on rituals and symbolism to…
Apr 15, 2009
From UmonHon Country to the Big Brown Land
what is that one is supposed to feel when your good friend, who made your life comfortable while visiting her country is leaving to that huge brown and red continent…
Mar 15, 2009
Thinking about Mamma Loshen.. Yiddisch
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20090316-0806a.mp3 http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20090316-0806a.mp3 one of the few advantages of driving through large swathes of plain countryside in the USA, in a rented car, is the ability to listen to BBC
Mar 15, 2009
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SANDRA KENNEDY IN MELBOURNE
It is one of Life’s greatest pleasures, indeed, when out of the mist of time, where memories hide, one small glimmer of a light comes out, bringing with it fragrances…
Mar 15, 2009
Visitors in an afternoon in the HoCank Clinic
This afternoon was a very pleasant afternoon.. I had various visitors some of whom are shown above. Five medical students from the City nearby came over to listen to some…
Mar 15, 2009
Bernard Lewis and the future of Arab Freedom..
Historian Bernard Lewis breathes a fresh perspective into the cultural conflict between the Arab and Islamic world and the west. Even as early as 1950, he had thought that the…
Mar 15, 2009
Culture of Poverty
The Culture of Poverty Today is March 9 th , 2009 and I am in the richest country. (By their own reckoning and calculations.) But I am amidst a very…
Mar 15, 2009
Back to the Blue House among the UmonHon
Air France Paris to Miami. a full flight, comfortable and safe flight. a little tedious, 9 h 40 minutes. five minutes for Immigration and less than one minute for Customs…
Mar 15, 2009
Normandie, Friends, Food and Nostalgie
I think of the good friends I have made over the years, how did they enter your life, silently, and then become inevitably etched..some arrive and leave soon enough but…
Jan 15, 2009
Welcome to France and to 2009
It is by the sacrifices you do for another person that you would be judged on the capacity to help that person. I have always done what I wanted, but…
Jan 15, 2009
The Shoe maker of Pondichery
The shoe maker of Pondicherry I had visited this erstwhile French colony in 2004, and just around the corner from the boutique hotel (now undergoiong reparations) was a hole in…
Dec 15, 2008
MingalarBar in Malaysia
Photo: Soleiman of Maulana Plaza at Seri Kembangan, Malaysia Mingalabar in Malaysia This has been a wonderful day in Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur to be specific. Just another day in Paradise,…
Dec 15, 2008
First Snow Fall for the Season..while I am here..
The Morning After the Snow Fall....Photo 5 Dinner at the Blue House . Photo 4 By 10 pm it was snowing hard. photo 3 Vida, an UmonHon, mother of my…
Dec 15, 2008
Israel and the Family of Jewish People
. The general perception from outside about a visit to Israel, concerns itself with Security, Terrorism, religious and national fanaticism and the brashness of its inhabitants. I was reminded of…
Dec 15, 2008
Medical Anthropology, Marginalization and MI CUBA
Medical Anthropology is not about medicine, but about Society. It is a tool in which we can divert the gaze of the academics who focus on rituals and symbolism to…
Dec 15, 2008
The Bald Men of Sind… I have Sind
Historical Past and Modern Endocrinology General Napier of the British Army in the employ of the East India Trading Company, with a meagre resource of 500 european and 4500 “native”…