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  • Sawa Village on the Pomats River at low tide in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp. Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Dyen Sabai Restaurant overlooking the Nam Khan River facing Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • River fish cut up for a festival at the Wat Phanluang Buddhist temple annual celebration across the Nam Khan River from Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Cultivating potatoes on a windy afternoon, Ermelinda Ayme wraps her baby in two shawls tied in different directions. When she and her husband Orlando arrived at the field, a ten-minute walk from their home, they said a quick prayer to Pacha Mamma (Mother Earth) before working the land. Occasionally, Ermelinda has to adjust the baby's position, but generally she has no problem carrying her tiny passenger. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 117). (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Tai Leu weaving village and market near Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Ermelinda Ayme cooks empanadas for her children in the family's earthen kitchen house as one of her sons watches. Husband Orlando slices onions to help his wife, an unusual task for a village man to undertake in Ecuador. (From a photographic gallery of kitchen images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 55) (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Fisherman sell their catch early in the morning on the elevated walkways that are the pedestrian roads of Agats, the largest town on the Arafura Sea in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp. Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Travel in this part of the world is by canoe or motorboat. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Kids catch small fish at low tide between the elevated walkways that are the pedestrian roads of Agats, the largest town on the Arafura Sea in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp. Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A young Asmattan child in the village of Komor, along the Bo River, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The Asmat is the worlds's largest (and hottest), swamp. (Man Eating Bugs page 64,65)
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  • Vegetables, grains and other farm products are displayed for sale at the Santinagar  market in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The sprawling market is a major source of income for subsistence farmers and in the surrounding areas.
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  • Wheat on the third floor storage area of Namgay and Nalim's house, Shingkhey Village, Bhutan. The family of subsistence farmers lives in a 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Nalim and her daughter Sangay work as partners; they take turns caring for the children and working in their mustard, rice, and wheat fields. Namgay, who has a hunched back and a clubfoot, grinds grain for neighbors with a small mill his family purchased from the government. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions.
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  • Nalim and Namgay's family sleeping arrangements in their home in Shingkhey, Bhutan. The family of subsistence farmers lives in a 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • A visiting monk reads Buddhist scripts during a house blessing of Namgay and Nalim's house. Shingkhey, Bhutan. The family of subsistence farmers lives in a 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • In the past, weavers of the Ura Valley village of Ura traded weavings for food to supplement the limited crops that would grow in the subsistence farmer's poor soil. Today, they might just as well be selling the weavings to a wholesaler or a passerby for currency to purchase the foods they need. The village has electricity now, powered by a hydroelectric plant. Work.  From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Nalim and Namgay's family of Bhutan, with all of their possessions. The family of subsistence farmers lives in a 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Namgay, who has a hunched back and a clubfoot, grinds grain for neighbors with a small mill his family purchased from the government. They are paying for the mill as they can (often the payment is made in grain and mustard oil). Namgay is also a reader of sacred texts and conducts house cleansing and healing ceremonies for their 14-house village.(Material World pages 72-73)
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  • Shingkhey villagers (Uncle Kinley Dorji at center) look at images of other countries from the Material World Project. Bhutan. The family of subsistence farmers lives in a 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan.
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  • Women harvest wheat in terraced strips through the hillsides near their home in the village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Each strip is devoted to a different crop, and dependent on the season: wheat, rice, chilies, or potatoes. The wheat harvest, now in full swing, is assigned to the women. They take two long, dowel-like sticks, pinch a fistful of wheat heads between them, and then pull up, snapping off the heads. For long-term storage, they cut the whole stalk, bind it into sheaves, and store the result in the attic, from where it is threshed little by little, as the family needs it. The family of subsistence farmers lives in a 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions.
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  • Sangay Khandu uses bulls to plow the family's fields, readying them for rice planting which the women in the family will do. He moves gingerly around the notoriously bad-tempered beasts. The Namgay household farms land that they own and rented land as well to feed their large family. The land is scattered in terraced strips through the hillsides near their home, each plot devoted to one crop: wheat, rice, chilies, or potatoes. Shingkhey, Bhutan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, pages 74-75. The family of subsistence farmers lives in a 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan.
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  • Nalim and Namgay family portrait outside their home in Shingkhey, Bhutan. The family of subsistence farmers lives in a 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Namgay, who has a hunched back and a clubfoot, grinds grain for neighbors with a small mill his family purchased from the government. They are paying for the mill as they can (often the payment is made in grain and mustard oil). Namgay is also a reader of sacred texts and conducts house cleansing and healing ceremonies for their 14-house village. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions.
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  • Nalim and Namgay's family of Bhutan, with all of their possessions. From pages 72-73, Material World. The family of subsistence farmers lives in a 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Namgay, who has a hunched back and a clubfoot, grinds grain for neighbors with a small mill his family purchased from the government. They are paying for the mill as they can (often the payment is made in grain and mustard oil). Namgay is also a reader of sacred texts and conducts house cleansing and healing ceremonies for their 14-house village.
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