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All Saints Day in Guatemala

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  • Susana Pérez Matias (standing)  takes a moment to talk with a friend in the kitchen of her home in Todos Santos Cuchumatán. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Mendoza family of Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemala, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • The Mendoza kitchen in their home in  Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemala, is the center of family life, and his wife's cooking unlocks the key to Fortunato's heart. "I am happiest," Fortunato (at right, center) says, "when I'm eating Susana's rice and beans, her homemade tortillas, and her turkey soup." Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 160).
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  • During the All Saints Day festival there seems to be no stigma attached to inebriation. The alcohol-altered state is not for adults only; a surprising number of young boys stagger around, and anyone with the money to buy a drink gets served; no questions asked. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 159). This image is featured alongside the Mendoza family of Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemala, images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Throughout the town, many people have their own turkeys and sheep, which they slaughter for special family reunions during festival days such as All Saints Day. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 161). This image is featured alongside the Mendoza family of Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemala, images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Beef for sale in the municipal market, Todos Santos, Guatemala. (From a photographic gallery of meat and poultry images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 165).
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  • The main street near the town square is lined with vendors in Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemala. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Dressed in special holiday clothing for the All Saints Day celebration in Todos Santo de Cuchumatan, Guatemala, a mob of men on horseback race back and forth down the main road into town between throngs of onlookers, stopping at each end of the course to take a pull of hard liquor before galloping at a breakneck pace to the other end. This exciting diversion goes on for hours as new riders enter the festivities and other riders fall off or just drunkenly give up. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 158).
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  • Patron saint festival horse race at Todos Santo de Cuchumatan, Guatemala.
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  • Patron saint festival horse race accident at Todos Santo de Cuchumatan, Guatemala.
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  • After the last jockey passes by, or out, everyone drifts off from the horse races to the town cemetery to celebrate All Saints Day. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 159). This image is featured alongside the Mendoza family of Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemalal, images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • The horse race at the All Saints Day celebration in the town of Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemala, finds many lively participants. Dressed in special holiday clothing for the All Saints Day celebration, a mob of men on horseback race back and forth down the main road into town between throngs of onlookers, stopping at each end of the course to take a pull of hard liquor before galloping at a breakneck pace to the other end. This exciting diversion goes on for hours as new riders enter the festivities and other riders fall off or just drunkenly give up. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Decorated cemetery crowded with people in the distance, on the Day of the Dead, in  Todos Santos de Cuchumatan, Guatemala.
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  • Day of the Dead gravestone, at Todos Santos de  Cuchumatan, Guatemala.
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  • Cemetery on the Day of the Dead in Todos Santos de  Cuchumatan, Guatemala.
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  • Lighting candles in a graveyard on the Day of the Dead in Todos Santo de Cuchumatan, Guatemala.
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  • Preparing graveyard for Day of the Dead. Todos Santo de Cuchumatan, Guatemala.
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  • Day of the Dead graveyard preparation.  Todos Santos de Cuchumatan, Guatemala.
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  • Preparing graveyard for Day of the Dead. Todos Santo de Cuchumatan, Guatemala.
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  • Day of the Dead celebration, which involves heavy drinking, in Todos Santo de Cuchumatan, Guatemala.
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  • Villager sleeping off his drunkenness in the graveyard on the Day of the Dead, Todos Santos de Cuchumatan, Guatemala.
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  • Young girl with bouquet of flowers in the cemetery on the Day of the Dead, in Todos Santos de Cuchumatan, Guatemala.
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  • Brightly colored graves in a cemetery at Chichicastenango, Guatemala.
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  • Brightly colored graves in a cemetery at Chichicastenango, Guatemala.
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