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  • Camel broker Saleh Abdul Fadlallah with his day's worth of food at the Birqash Camel Market outside Cairo, Egypt. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of April was 3200 kcals.  He is 40 years of age; 5 feet, 8 inches tall; and 165 pounds. Contrary to popular belief, camels' humps don't store water; they are a reservoir of fatty tissue that minimizes the need for heat-trapping insulation in the rest of their bodies; the dromedary, or Arabian camel, has a single hump, while Asian camels have two. Camels are well suited for desert climes: their long legs and huge, two-toed feet with leathery pads enable them to walk easily in sand, and their eyelids, nostrils, and thick coat protect them from heat and blowing sand. These characteristics, along with their ability to eat thorny vegetation and derive sufficient moisture from tough green herbage, allow camels to survive in very inhospitable terrain. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Viahondjera fetches water from a shallow, muddy river near her father's village in northwestern Namibia as her father's third wife, Mukoohirumbu, cleans her baby's face. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) After filling up their containers they will flip their headdresses back and carry the jugs of water home on their heads.
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  • The head nun of the Lhasaani Tsang Kung Nunnery,  Tsul Tim Lhamu. (Tsul Tim Lhamu was photographed for the book project What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Himba women milk cows in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • Traditionally dressed Himba women sit around a fire at their home in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia.  Like most traditional Himba women, they cover themselves from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • A traditionally dressed Himba woman with her child outside a supermarket in Opuwo, a town well known for cultural tourism in northwestern Namibia, after receiving money from a tourist in exchange for a photograph.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder and cow butter blend. Some Himba are turning to tourism to kick-start their entry into the cash economy, setting up demonstration villages advertising "The Real Himba."
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  • A traditionaly dressed Himba woman shopping with her child in a supermarket in Opuwo, northwestern Namibia. Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder and cow butter blend..
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  • The head monk at his partially rebuilt monastery with his typical day's worth of food in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in June was 4,900 kcals. He is 45 years of age; 5 feet, 5 inches tall; and 158 pounds.
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  • Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio co-authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, interview Viahondjera Musutua, a 23 year old Himba woman in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The young woman is the mother of three children and bore her first child at age 14.  The Himba culture is polygamous and Viahondjera is the second wife of her husband. Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • The head monk extends his tongue to greet visitors at the reconstructed monastery in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the book What I Eat; Around the World in 80  Diets.) An extended tongue is a common greeting that indicates respect. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Tsul Tim Lhamu, head nun at the Lhasaani Tsang Kung Nunnery, Lhasa, Tibet, taking her early morning walk around the city. (Tsul Tim Lhamu was photographed for the book project What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The head nun of the Lhasaani Tsang Kung Nunnery,  Tsul Tim Lhamu. (Tsul Tim Lhamu was photographed for the book project What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A Himba chief stands with his two wives outside his home in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia, during the rainy season in March.  The Himba culture is polygamous. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, they covers themselves from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • Himba women milk cows in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • Viahondjera Musutua (far left), a Himba tribeswoman, sits outside her hut with members of her family in the Ondjete in northwestern Namibia. (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat; Around World in 80 Diets.) The Himba culture is polygamous and Viahondjera is the second wife of her husband. Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend. The photograph was made in Okapembambu village, where she was raised. She is here with her youngest child helping with the corn harvest to bring back corn for her husband and children.
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  • Viahondjera fetches water from a shallow, muddy river near her father's village in northwestern Namibia.  (Viahondjera Musutua is featured in the book What I Eat; Around World in 80 Diets.) Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • A Himba tribeswoman fixes her hair outside her home in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia, during the rainy season in March. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • Himba women milk cows in the small village of Okapembambu in northwestern Namibia. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder, cow butter blend.
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  • A traditionally dressed Himba woman shops for staples and soda pop with her child in a supermarket in Opuwo, a town well known for cultural tourism in northwestern Namibia, after receiving money from a tourist in exchange for a photograph.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder and cow butter blend. Some Himba are turning to tourism to kick-start their entry into the cash economy, setting up demonstration villages advertising "The Real Himba."
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  • A traditionally dressed Himba woman with a child speaks to three men  outside a grocery store in Opuwo, a town well known for cultural tourism in northwestern Namibia.  Like most traditional Himba women, she covers herself from head to toe with an ochre powder and cow butter blend. Some Himba are turning to tourism to kick-start their entry into the cash economy, setting up demonstration villages advertising "The Real Himba."
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  • Ban Saylom Village, just South of Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, one of the authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, at Khan al-Khalili souq (market) in Cairo, Egypt.
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  • USA_SIKH_06_xs.Sikh festival parade at the Sikh Temple, Yuba City, California..
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  • Aerial of Sikh festival parade at the Sikh Temple, rural Yuba City, California.
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  • Portrait of young Palestinian woman in Dubai, United Arab Emirates..
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  • Children in the village of Bweyogerere excitedly hunt for termites by hacking into their earthen mound, placing a cloth in front of the entrance, and yanking off the ants that attack the cloth. They pick them up by the rear, biting off their heads and throwing away the rear part. Or they collect them in a bowl to be roasted. Bweyogerere, Uganda. (Man Eating Bugs page 148,149)
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  • Children in the village of Bweyogerere hunt for termites early in the morning by hacking into the termites' mounded earthen homes. They place a cloth in front of the entrance, and yank off the ants that attack the cloth. They pick them up by the rear, biting off their heads and throwing away the rear part. Or they collect them in a bowl to be roasted. Bweyogerere, Uganda. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Boys in the village of Bweyogerere hunt for termites early in the morning by hacking into the termites' mounded earthen homes. They place a cloth in front of the entrance, and yank off the ants that attack the cloth. The harvesters pick them up by the rear, biting off their heads and throwing away the rear part. Or they collect them in a bowl to be roasted. Bweyogerere, Uganda. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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