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.
RIAD HAMDANI, CASABLANCA: MOROCCAN MINT TEA AT MIDNIGHT 26 December 2016 The flight is about to leave Casablanca for its 6 hours 40 minutes flight to Hamad International Airport in…
Original Blogger URL: https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2017/01/hanukkah-in-miami-tropical-nights-and.html
WHY IS QATAR AIRWAYS THE BEST? AMAZING FLIGHT FROM DOHA TO BOSTON 27.12.2016 In the last three months, I have been lucky to have flown Qatar Airways QR 12 times,…
QUIBERON: LOVE BY THE BRETAGNE SEA SIDE LA VIDA ES UN SUENO. MS. M AND QATAR A traveler would often be asked, which is your favourite place? Which is your…
Original Blogger URL: https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2017/01/happy-new-year-from-havana-cuba.html
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On arrival at the LISBOA airport, the exit was speedy, as there were no passport controls, coming in from Nantes in France. Quickly making myself familiar with the arrivals area,…
I have been very fortunate with my long association with the Antlers. They are a tribe who had gradual contact with the Outsiders and maintained their identiy intact to the…
I am very happy to see Singapore and Malaysia in this list, I think it is because of their active diplomacy. For example, Malaysia is one of the few countries…
I have been travelling regularly to Cochins since 2004 and I had chronicled my travels and photographs in the website The Virtualtourist, which was acquired by Trip Advisor and now…
The mercury has not crossed the zero, outside it is an eery silence, the roads of this hamlet gleam, the ice thick as paste. No humans in sight, no vehicles,…
16 January 2017 It is that time of the year in these Plains. Leaves had already fallen into oblivion and the stark trees pait themselves against the grey canvas of…
The portrait above is that of the Great Chief Sitting Bull of the Lakota. I had spent this weekend indoors. While this house is in an isolated part of the…
“Wherever you have friends, that’s your country. Wherever you receive love, that’s your home. Whoever gives you love, that’s your parent.” – Tibetan saying. As quoted by the Dalai Lama.…
Oliver Sacks wrote in the Introduction to this book: Cecil Helman is many things: old-fashioned General (Family) Practitioner, psychiatrist, cultural anthropologist, storyteller, poet and artist-and all this comes together in…
it was raining when I arrived at the most modern of Dental Laboratories in Asia at a town quite a bit away from Fort Cochin, soon a bus discharges the…
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…
When they talk about OPPRESSION or MARGINALIZATION the outsiders especially those with conservative point of view in Miami and elsewhere are thinking of the Politics in CUBA. Most people who…
