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  • The steep hillside overlooking the sea with the town of Atrani on the Amalfi Coast, Italy.
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  • A tea plantation, near Kericho, Kenya, owned by Unilever. Owned by Unilever. Workers live in company housing and make $3 to $9 US per day, depending on how much tea they pick. They are paid by the kilo. The young tea leaves  are picked every two weeks.
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  • A tea plantation, near Kericho, Kenya, owned by Unilever. Workers live in company housing and make $3 to $9 US per day, depending on how much tea they pick. They are paid by the kilo. The young tea leaves  are picked every two weeks.
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  • A view from the back fields of Kibet Serem's small tea plantation near Kericho, Kenya. (Kibet Serem is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  He is 25 years of age.
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  • Rock Festival fans in the rain at the Woodstock rock festival at Max Yasgur's 600 acre farm, in the rural town of Bethel, NY, on the weekend of August 16-18, 1969.
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  • Thanksgiving time, Napa CA
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  • Lugano, Switzerland on Lake Lugano."Lugano is a city in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy. The population of the city proper was 55,151 as of December 2011, and the population of the urban agglomeration was over 145,000. Wikipedia"
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  • Lugano, Switzerland on Lake Lugano."Lugano is a city in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy. The population of the city proper was 55,151 as of December 2011, and the population of the urban agglomeration was over 145,000. Wikipedia"
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  • Long distance runners pass through a tea plantation, near Kericho, Kenya, owned by Unilever. Owned by Unilever. Workers live in company housing and make $3 to $9 US per day, depending on how much tea they pick. They are paid by the kilo. The young tea leaves  are picked every two weeks.
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  • Taipei, Taiwan
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • Laguna Beach, California.
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  • Laguna Beach, California.
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  • Laguna Beach, California.
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  • Laguna Beach, California.
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  • Lugano, Switzerland on Lake Lugano. "Lugano is a city in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy. The population of the city proper was 55,151 as of December 2011, and the population of the urban agglomeration was over 145,000. Wikipedia"
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  • Toledo, Spain seen from a hill on the other side of the Rio Tajo.
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  • The hill town of Rivello, Basilicata, Italy.
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  • Rhine River, vineyards near Linz, Germany.
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  • Typical round homes in Ha-Matiyane Village, Venda (North Transvaal) South Africa.
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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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  • Preparing graveyard for Day of the Dead. Todos Santo 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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  • Çinar Family of Golden Horn (or Haliç) area, Istanbul, Turkey, with all of their possessions outside their home. The photograph was made by Peter Menzel and patterned after his 1994 book, Material World: A Global Family Portrait.
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  • Çinar Family of Golden Horn (or Haliç) area, Istanbul, Turkey, with all of their possessions outside their home. The photograph was made by Peter Menzel and patterned after his 1994 book, Material World: A Global Family Portrait.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • Rock Festival fans leaving the area on the side of the stage after the Woodstock rock festival at Max Yasgur's 600 acre farm, in the rural town of Bethel, NY, on the weekend of August 16-18, 1969..
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  • Aerial photograph of Laguna Beach subdivisions in Orange County, California.
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  • Laguna Beach, California.
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  • Laguna Beach, California.
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  • Ft. Ross, near Timber Cove, N. Caliornia Coast
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  • Thanksgiving time, Napa CA
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  • Lugano, Switzerland on Lake Lugano. "Lugano is a city in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy. The population of the city proper was 55,151 as of December 2011, and the population of the urban agglomeration was over 145,000. Wikipedia"
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  • Lugano, Switzerland on Lake Lugano. "Lugano is a city in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy. The population of the city proper was 55,151 as of December 2011, and the population of the urban agglomeration was over 145,000. Wikipedia"
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  • Lugano, Switzerland on Lake Lugano. "Lugano is a city in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy. The population of the city proper was 55,151 as of December 2011, and the population of the urban agglomeration was over 145,000. Wikipedia"
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  • Lugano, Switzerland on Lake Lugano. "Lugano is a city in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy. The population of the city proper was 55,151 as of December 2011, and the population of the urban agglomeration was over 145,000. Wikipedia"
    SWI_121012_141_x.jpg
  • Lugano, Switzerland on Lake Lugano. "Lugano is a city in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy. The population of the city proper was 55,151 as of December 2011, and the population of the urban agglomeration was over 145,000. Wikipedia"
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  • High-rise apartment with laundry and trash below in Caracas, Venezuela.
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  • View of the Chicon glacier in the far distance and the town of Urubamba in the Urubamba River Valley, Peru.
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  • Patchwork fields on steep hills near Ambato, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • A man cultives his terrace rice fields near Ubud at Penatahan in Bali, Indonesia.
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  • Graveyard in the town of Arnedillo, La Rioja, Spain.
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  • View of tile roofed village of Cornago, with gardens in the foreground, La Rioja, Spain.
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  • Wheat field with town in the background. Czech-German border.
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  • Physics: British theoretical physicist Professor Peter Higgs seen in Holyrood Park overlooking Edinburgh, Scotland (b. 1929). In 1964, Higgs predicted the existence of a new type of fundamental particle, commonly called the Higgs boson. This particle is required by many of the current Grand Unified Theories (or GUTs), which hope to explain three of the fundamental forces (electromagnetism, the weak & the strong nuclear forces) in a single unified theory. The Higgs boson is yet to be detected experimentally, but it is one of the main challenges of high-energy particle accelerators now being built. Higgs is professor of theoretical physics at Edinburgh University. MODEL RELEASED [1988]
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  • Physics: British theoretical physicist Professor Peter Higgs seen in Holyrood Park in Edinburgh, Scotland (b. 1929). In 1964, Higgs predicted the existence of a new type of fundamental particle, commonly called the Higgs boson. This particle is required by many of the current Grand Unified Theories (or GUTs), which hope to explain three of the fundamental forces (electromagnetism, the weak & the strong nuclear forces) in a single unified theory. The Higgs boson is yet to be detected experimentally, but it is one of the main challenges of high-energy particle accelerators now being built. Higgs is professor of theoretical physics at Edinburgh University. MODEL RELEASED [1988]
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  • Day of the Dead celebration, which involves heavy drinking, in Todos Santo 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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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
    TAI_110325_147_x.jpg
  • Rock Festival fans leaving the area in front of the stage after the Woodstock rock festival at Max Yasgur's 600 acre farm, in the rural town of Bethel, NY, on the weekend of August 16-18, 1969..
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  • Aerial photograph of Mission Viejo housing subdivisions in Orange County, California.
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  • Thanksgiving time, Napa CA
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  • Lugano, Switzerland on Lake Lugano."Lugano is a city in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy. The population of the city proper was 55,151 as of December 2011, and the population of the urban agglomeration was over 145,000. Wikipedia"
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  • Terraces at Inca ruins at Machu Picchu, Peru.
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  • San Diego Cemetery in Quito, Ecuador. It is the final resting-place of some of the most important public personalities of Ecuador, including various ex-presidents.
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  • The crumbling village of Gallipienzo, Spain is built on the side of a hill and is utterly charming. The houses are built of stone and mortar. The old mortar is crumbling and is patched in places. Several of the homes are newly renovated but the owners kept the original ideas of the houses in place, which is what is keeping the village charming. Navarra, Spain.
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  • Preparing graveyard for Day of the Dead. Todos Santo de Cuchumatan, Guatemala.
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  • Farmland and houses encroaching on the Monarch butterfly reserve at Site Alpha, Mexico.
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  • Amalfi Coast, Italy..
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  • The hill town of Rivello, Basilicata, Italy.
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  • A pilgrim reads holy scriptures on the banks of the Ganges before dawn. Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges at Hardiwar, India. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the faithful throng to bathe in the river.
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  • Arnedillo, La Rioja Region, Spain.
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  • Positano, Amalfi Coast, Italy.
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  • These happy young neighbors of the Regzen Batsuuri family live in a 200 square foot ger (round tent built from canvas, strong poles, and wool felt) on a hillside lot overlooking one of the sprawling valleys that make up Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Children, Child. The Regzen Batsuuri family lives in a 200 square foot ger (round tent built from canvas, strong poles, and wool felt) on a hillside lot overlooking one of the sprawling valleys that make up Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Material World Project.
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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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  • Three-year-old Chato Geltshin holds a branch full of berries brought by Uncle Kinley Dorji after a firewood-cutting expedition outside their hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 76.
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  • Traditional three-story houses built of rammed earth in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Nalim and Namgay's house is center, top. Their neighbor (to the right) is building a new house for his family directly in front of the old one. Carpenters from another village build the wooden structures such as doorways, rafters, windows, and lintels. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Khorloo Batsuuri (far right) and her fellow students listen to their teacher at school in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The Regzen Batsuuri family lives in a 200 square foot ger (round tent built from canvas, strong poles, and wool felt) on a hillside lot overlooking one of the sprawling valleys that make up Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. 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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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).In Shingkhey, a remote hillside village of a dozen homes, Nalim and Namgay's family assembles in the prayer room of their three-story rammed-earth house with one week's worth of food for their extended family of thirteen. The Namgay family is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 36).
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  • Nalim and Namgay's grandson, Geltshin, watches a wood worker cutting traditional shapes into a piece of wood for a new Bhutanese house. The carpenters, from another village, have set up camp and live at the work site while they do the woodwork for a new house in the village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Traditional three-story houses built of rammed earth dot the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Nalim and Namgay's neighbor is building a new house for his family directly in front of his old one. Carpenters from another village build the wooden structures such as doorways, rafters, windows, and lintels. Villagers from each family come to help pound the dirt into wooden forms day after day, creating the walls of the earthen house. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Woodstock Rock Festival fans in the rain wait on the muddy hillside above the stage for the next act to play at the Woodstock rock festival at Max Yasgur's 600 acre farm, in the rural town of Bethel, NY, on the weekend of August 16-18, 1969..
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  • Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer, oversees the cooking of lunch for guests and neighbors at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (She is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets). The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.  She lives in the area of Production Team 7 of Ganjiagou Village, 1.5 hours south of the provincial capital of Sichuan Province?Chengdu.
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  • Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer, prepares a chicken for her guests and neighbors at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China.  (She is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.
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  • Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer, in front of her home with her typical day's worth of food in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation. MODEL RELEASED.
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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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  • Portrait of the Batsuuri family of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The Regzen Batsuuri family lives in a 200 square foot ger (round tent built from canvas, strong poles, and wool felt) on a hillside lot overlooking one of the sprawling valleys that make up Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Material World Project.
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  • The Regzen family outside their ger with all of their possessions, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Published in Material World pages 40-41. The Regzen Batsuuri family lives in a 200 square foot ger (round tent built from canvas, strong poles, and wool felt) on a hillside lot overlooking one of the sprawling valleys that make up Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
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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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  • 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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  • One of Sangay's morning duties is milking the cows. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 75. Sangay and her children and husband live in her parent's house; a traditional 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Sangay and her mother Nalim care for the children and work 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.
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  • Sheep, cattle, and alpacas are rounded up in a corral on a hillside near a family compound near Simiatug, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Clothes drying in the sun on a hillside near a family compound near Simiatug, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Underground homes built into a hillside. Nice, France.
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  • Lan Guihua (right), a widowed farmer, and her neighbor bleed a freshly killed chicken at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (She is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets). The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.  She lives in the area of Production Team 7 of Ganjiagou Village, 1.5 hours south of the provincial capital of Sichuan Province?Chengdu.
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  • Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer, at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (Lan Guihua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.  She lives in the area of Production Team 7 of Ganjiagou Village, 1.5 hours south of the provincial capital of Sichuan Province?Chengdu. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Khorloo Batsuuri and her classmates at school in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Children, Child. The Regzen Batsuuri family lives in a 200 square foot ger (round tent built from canvas, strong poles, and wool felt) on a hillside lot overlooking one of the sprawling valleys that make up Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Material World Project.
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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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  • 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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  • El Escorial, Spain, seen from a rocky hillside.
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  • Katherine Navas, a high school student, on the roof of her family's home in a barrio in Caracas, Venezuela with her typical day's worth of food.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in the month of November was 4,000 kcals. She is 18 years of age; 5 feet, 7 inches tall; and 157 pounds.  Unlike housing in most of the developed world, the higher the house, the cheaper the rent in the dangerous Caracas barrios. Those living at the top of the steep hillside have to travel the farthest to reach services, shops, and the main street, a trip normally made only in the daylight hours. MODEL RELEASED
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  • The Regzen family outside their ger with all of their possessions, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Published in Material World pages 40-41. The Regzen Batsuuri family lives in a 200 square foot ger (round tent built from canvas, strong poles, and wool felt) on a hillside lot overlooking one of the sprawling valleys that make up Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. They live in a squatter's area, as do thousands of other Mongols who moved here from the rural countryside.
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  • A fierce September snowstorm whips through a residential hillside area of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Material World Project.
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  • A small coal-burning stove heats the neighboring ger of Oyunsetseg's sister and her family on a snowy September weekend morning. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Material World Project. The Regzen Batsuuri family lives in a 200 square foot ger (round tent built from canvas, strong poles, and wool felt) on a hillside lot overlooking one of the sprawling valleys that make up Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
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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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  • In Shingkhey, a remote hillside village of a dozen homes, Nalim and Namgay's family assembles in the prayer room of their three-story rammed-earth house with one week's worth of food for their extended family of thirteen. From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (Model Released)
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