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  • Cemetery above the village of San Antonio Palopo on Lake Aititlan, Guatemala.
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  • Stacked aboveground graves in a cemetery overlooking Lake Aititlan in Solola, Guatemala.
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  • Gabriel Calixta praying in the cemetery chapel at Solola, Guatemala on Lake Atitlan.
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  • Gabriel Calixta praying and lighting candles in the cemetery chapel at Solola, Guatemala on Lake Atitlan.
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  • Above-ground graves in a cemetery overlooking Lake Aititlan in Solola, Guatemala with volcanoes in the distance.
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  • Cemetery above the village of San Antonio Palopo on Lake Aititlan, Guatemala.
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  • Cemetery above the village of San Antonio Palopo on Lake Aititlan, Guatemala.
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  • The Calabay Sicay family sisters at home in San Antonio Palopo Village on Lake Aititlan, Guatemala. Smiles show tooth decay.
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  • Santa Catarina Arch in Antigua, Guatemala, with volcano in distance.
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  • Santa Catarina Arch in Antigua, Guatemala.
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  • Shrimp vendor on market day in Solola, Guatemala.
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  • Ruins of the church & convent of Santa Clara, in Antigua, Guatemala.
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  • Vegetable stand near Chichicastemango, Guatemala.
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  • View from Hotel Bella Vista overlooking San Antonio Palopo Village on Lake Aititlan, Guatemala.
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  • View from Hotel Bella Vista overlooking San Antonio Palopo Village on Lake Aititlan, Guatemala.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). The Mendoza family and a servant in their courtyard in Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemala, with a week's worth of food. Between Fortunato Pablo Mendoza, and Susana Pérez Matias, stand (left to right) Ignacio, Cristolina, and a family friend (standing in for daughter Marcelucia, who ran off to play). Far right: Sandra Ramos, live-in helper. The Mendoza family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 156)
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  • Especially busy during the days before the All Saints Day holidays, the village market of Todos Santos Cuchumatán spills out of the big, concrete municipal market and extends down side streets. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 160). This image is featured alongside the Mendoza family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Susana Pérez Matias shops at the local market in Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemala,(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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  • A vendor makes change on market day in Antigua. Guatemala. (Environs image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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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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  • A traveling salesman selling hair ties uses a doll to show indigenous Guatemalan women how to tie their back with a new type of hair rolling band. Antigua, Guatemala. (image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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