Oct 15, 2010
A Wonderful Day with Los Indios.. The Original Inhabitants of this Land
Today is 20th October 2010 My feelings are so tender, so warm and so effusive.. What is the source of tenderness? It is the time that i spend with these…
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.
Oct 15, 2010
It is Nice to Dream about San Cristobal de la Habana
Reveries of a Born Traveler Three days after my birth, an astrologer was consulted who drew the map of the stars at the time of birth (a chart I still…
Aug 15, 2009
Dr SYKS and Alain de Boton on Work and Happiness
I was extraordinarily lucky to have had my medical education divided between three countries: London in England, a medical model still paying attention to the great masters of the past…
Jun 15, 2009
Unexpecteed Pleasures…
Unexpected Pleasures La Habana, 27 th June 2009 Two important conversations, both related to my work in Anthropology and also the future of my work here in La Habana. One…
Jun 15, 2009
About the Five Good Friends I had come to see
Day 3 in Havana. Early Morning. As usual, another night of deep sleep. During the week with the Indians, the sleep was so disturbed, waking up at 2 am and…
Jun 15, 2009
Welcome to Nuestra Isla Rica.. Mi Cuba
It is searingly hot here in Habana. Unrelenting and burning through to your bones. This morning I left the house of my sister in Miami at 530 am, arriving at…
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…
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
Among the UmOnHoN people
with a Macussi Indian Child in Southern Guyana The world Chocolate is an Indian word..Aztec Xocalatl The journey to the Indians is always arduous.. first of all there is the…