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  • Soweto, South Africa. ANC (African National Congress) rally to commemorate the Sharpville massacre on its anniversary. On 21 March 1960 at least 180 black Africans were injured (there are claims that as many as 300 were injured) and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on approximately 300 demonstrators, who were protesting against the pass laws, at the township of Sharpeville, near Vereeniging in the Transvaal. The Sharpeville Massacre, as the event has become known, signaled the start of armed resistance in South Africa, and prompted worldwide condemnation of South Africa's Apartheid policies. Material World Project.
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  • Catherine Lemekwana with a mopane worm stew she prepared for her family using dried mopane worms, onions, garlic, salt, and curry in her home in Soweto, (South West Township), Johannesberg, South Africa. The harvest of mopane worms is a major economic event in Botswana where whole families move into the countryside and set up camp in order to collect the worms. Dried mopane worms have three times the protein content of beef and can be stored for many months. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Mopane worm sellers in a South African market in Thohoyandou claim the lack of rain to be attributable for the smaller than normal supply of the insects. Mpumalanga, South Africa. "Mopane" refers to the mopane tree, which the caterpillar eats. Dried mopane worms have three times the protein content of beef and can be stored for many months. (Man Eating Bugs page 127) .
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  • Regina Mundi Catholic Church Service. Soweto, South Africa (Southwest Township is called Soweto, and is located outside Johannesburg, South Africa). Material World Project.
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  • The Northern Province of South Africa, formerly the Northern Transvaal and now called the Mpumalanga, is home to the Vendan people. Here, Muditami Munzhedzi, in traditional Venda clothing, prepares the Vendan's daily staple of cornmeal porridge as well as mopane worms. Tshamulavhu, Mpumalanga, South Africa. "Mopane" refers to the mopane tree, which the caterpillar eats. Dried mopane worms have three times the protein content of beef and can be stored for many months. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Grasshoppers, with the wings removed, in the hand of a Vendan child in northeastern South Africa, collected from the field near his village. After a half-hour foraging, the grasshoppers are brought back to one of the mothers to cook and then the children eat them with porridge. The children couldn't agree on whether meat or insects taste best but all agree that the grasshoppers, as well as mopane worms, winged termites, and locusts are enjoyable. Masetoni Village, (Venda). South Africa. (Man Eating Bugs page 7 Top Left. See also page 136-137)
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  • The Northern Province of South Africa, formerly the Northern Transvaal and now called the Mpumalanga, is home to the Vendan people. Here, Muditami Munzhedzi, in traditional Venda clothing, prepares the Vendan's daily staple of cornmeal porridge as well as mopane worms. Tshamulavhu, Mpumalanga, South Africa. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects)
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  • The Qampie Family, March 15th, 1993, in front of their home with all of their possessions, Soweto, South Africa. Published on pages 22-23 of Material World: A Global Family Portrait. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • Leah and Anna, Poppy Qampie's mother and sister, respectively, visit in the kitchen of Poppy's house in Soweto, South Africa. Published in Material World page 27. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • A group of children on the street play checkers with beer bottle caps on a homemade checkerboard in Soweto, South Africa. Soweto is the nickname of Southwest Township, a sprawling lawless community outside Johannesburg. Published in Material World on page 26. South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Rain delay during the shooting of the Material World big picture in South Africa. The Qampie family had to cover all their possessions, which had already been moved outside, during the brief but fierce thunderstorm that swept across Soweto. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Funeral of a 29-year-old woman (a neighbor of the Qampies) in Soweto, South Africa. The funeral is in a tent set up on the street outside the family's home in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Poppy Qampie passes by root vegetables and fruit for sale by the plate full near the office where she works as an assistant in downtown Johannesburg (Joberg), South Africa. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Poppy Qampie serves coffee to a fellow employee at Options in Training, a job-skills-teaching company based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is a longtime office assistant. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Children at the neighborhood daycare in Soweto, South Africa with traces of breakfast on their faces: pap (corn meal mixed with water). Published in Material World, page 24. This is the daycare center where Simon's son George and nephew Mateo attend while their parents are at work. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • Poppy Qampie offers coffee to a fellow employee at Options in Training, a job-skills-teaching company based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is an office assistant. Published in Material World, page 24. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • Regina Mundi Catholic Church Service, Soweto, South Africa. This church is the largest church in Soweto (South West Township, outside Johannesburg). Material World Project.
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  • Children at the neighborhood daycare in Soweto, South Africa eat a breakfast, and a lunch, of hot pap porridge: corn meal mixed with water. This is the daycare center where Simon's son George and nephew Mateo attend while their parents are at work. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • The Qampie Family, March 15th, 1993, in front of their home with all of their possessions, Soweto, South Africa. Near original to image that appeared on pages 22-23 of Material World: A Global Family Portrait. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • The Qampie Family, March 15th, 1993, in front of their home with all of their possessions, Soweto, South Africa. Published on pages 22-23 of Material World: A Global Family Portrait. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • Simon and Poppy Qampie (center in blue shirt, and red, respectively) pose with their children and extended family outside their home outside Johannesburg, in Southwest Township, South Africa. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • The Qampie children and a few of their friends play 'ring around the rosie? on a Sunday afternoon in front of their house in Soweto, South Africa. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Child, Games. Material World Project.
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  • The Quampie children and a few of their friends play 'ring around the rosie? on a Sunday afternoon in front of their house in Soweto, South Africa.  The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • A group of South African village children play with a home made toy bus, ingeniously fashioned out of scrap wire. Tshamulavhu village, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • The Qampie Family, March 15th, 1993, in front of their home with all of their possessions, Soweto, South Africa. Near original to image that appeared on pages 22-23 of Material World: A Global Family Portrait. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • The Samuel Msomi family in Soweto, South Africa with all their possessions in the back yard of their house. This family was not chosen for the Material World book, but they are, like the Qampie family in the book, statistically average for South Africa.
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  • Simon Qampie brushes his teeth over a bucket in the bedroom of his family's house in Southwest Township (called Soweto), South Africa. They have running water in the kitchen only, and their toilet is an outhouse in their backyard. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Soweto, outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Getting to work is a scary daily business for Simon and Poppy Qampie, because the train that picks them up at the Phomolong station in Soweto, South Africa, is often boarded by machete and gun wielding thugs. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • A teen-age boy snacking on dried, salted mopane worms near Lanseria, South Africa. Eaten dry the worms are hard, crispy, and woody tasting. The worms are so popular in South Africa that they have been over-harvested and are now only abundant in neighboring Botswana. "Mopane" refers to the mopane tree, which the caterpillar eats. Dried mopane worms have three times the protein content of beef and can be stored for many months. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • USA_SFOL_13_xs.The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco's South of Market district is is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. It was started in 1984 for gays and lesbians, and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles. California, USA. .
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  • USA_SFOL_14_xs.The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco's South of Market district is is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. It was started in 1984 for gays and lesbians, and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles. California, USA. .
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  • USA_SFOL_11_xs.The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco's South of Market district is is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. It was started in 1984 for gays and lesbians, and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles. California, USA. .
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  • USA_SFOL_10_xs.The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco's South of Market district is is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. It was started in 1984 for gays and lesbians, and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles. California, USA. .
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  • USA_SFOL_06_xs.The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco's South of Market district is is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. It was started in 1984 for gays and lesbians, and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles. California, USA. .
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  • USA_SFOL_05_xs.The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco's South of Market district is is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. It was started in 1984 for gays and lesbians, and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles. California, USA. .
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  • USA_SFOL_03_xs.The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco's South of Market district is is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. It was started in 1984 for gays and lesbians, and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles. California, USA. .
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  • USA_SFOL_15_xs.The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco's South of Market district is is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. It was started in 1984 for gays and lesbians, and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles. California, USA. ..
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  • USA_SFOL_12_xs.The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco's South of Market district is is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. It was started in 1984 for gays and lesbians, and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles. California, USA. .
    USA_SFOL_12_xs.jpg
  • USA_SFOL_09_xs.The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco's South of Market district is is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. It was started in 1984 for gays and lesbians, and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles. California, USA. .
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  • USA_SFOL_07_xs.The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco's South of Market district is is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. It was started in 1984 for gays and lesbians, and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles. California, USA.  NAMBLA the clown..
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  • USA_SFOL_04_xs.The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco's South of Market district is is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. It was started in 1984 for gays and lesbians, and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles. California, USA. .
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  • A lioness lying in the grass at dawn in Kruger National Park. Northern Transvaal, South Africa.
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  • Typical round homes in Ha-Matiyane Village, Venda (North Transvaal) South Africa.
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  • Picking tea leaves on the plantation of the Tshivhase Tea Estate in Venda (North Transvaal), South Africa.
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  • A Vendan woman stirs a pot of grasshoppers that the kids have just collected. She cooks the de-winged grasshoppers in oil and they are eaten with cornmeal porridge. Masetoni, Mpumalanga, South Africa. (Man Eating Bugs page 137B)
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  • Roadside advertisement for Rama butter spread on an overpass at the minibus station in Soweto, South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Simon Qampie cuts the grass around his family's tiny house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg), South Africa. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, pages 22-23. Material World Project.
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  • Tshamulavhu Village wooden outhouse in rural Northern Transvaal (Venda), South Africa.
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  • Elephant crossing the road in Kruger National Park. North Transvaal, South Africa.
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  • Village women outside their round house making traditional beer from the fruit of the marula tree in Tshamulavhu Village, Venda, South Africa.
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  • A typical roundhouse in Mingha Village, Venda (North Transvaal) South Africa.
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  • A smiling woman in a pink shirt picking tea leaves on the plantation of the Tshivhase Tea Estate in Venda (North Transvaal), South Africa.
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  • Sorting freshly picked tea leaves on the plantation of the Tshivhase Tea Estate in Venda (North Transvaal), South Africa.
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  • Mopane worm merchants in the central market of Thohoyandou serve as the intermediaries between the worm wholesalers and individual customers. "Mopane" refers to the mopane tree, which the caterpillar eats. Dried mopane worms have three times the protein content of beef and can be stored for many months. Eaten dry the worms are hard, crispy, and woody tasting. Thohoyandou, South Africa. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Thirteen-year-old Venda youth, Azwifarwi, with his homemade Mercedes crafted of scrap wire, foam rubber and wood in order to push and steer around his village, Tshamulavhu village, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Vendan women prepare the termites they have collected with their termite collecting sticks from a large termite mound near their village of Masetoni, Mpumalanga, South Africa. They are cleaning the termites by rinsing them in water, and then they fry them in oil and eat them with cornmeal porridge called mielie mielie. Fried termites are nutty and crunchy. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Thirteen-year-old Venda youth, Azwifarwi, with his homemade Mercedes crafted ingeniously and artistically out of scrap wire, foam rubber and wood in order to push and steer around his village, Mpumalanga, South Africa. (Man Eating Bugs page 140,141)
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  • Vendan women with their termite collecting equipment; sticks to penetrate into the termite mounds in order to retrieve the insects and bowls to collect them, Masetoni, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Fried termites are nutty and crunchy. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects)
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  • Vendan children sweep through a grassy field hunting for grasshoppers outside their small village of Masetoni, Mpumalanga, South Africa. (Man Eating Bugs page 136)
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  • Muditami Munzhedzi and her family share a breakfast of mopane worm stew; the dried caterpillars are reconstituted in hot water and are then stewed with the dish's other ingredients. Eaten dry the worms are hard, crispy, and woody tasting. Tshamulavhu, Mpumalanga, South Africa. (Man Eating Bugs page 135)
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  • Butcher shop in downtown Johannesburg (Joberg), South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • View of the shantytown called "Silvertown", near Soweto, outside Johannesburg, South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Getting to work can be frightening for Poppy Qampie and her husband Simon. The trains that come into Phomolong station in Soweto are often boarded by machete and gun wielding thugs. The danger posed by robbers is so great that sometimes Poppy opts for a minibus ride instead; although that too has become a dangerous form of transportation in recent years. Published in Material World pages 24 & 25. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • Toilet outhouse belonging to the Qampie Family, Soweto, South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Poppy Qampie irons Simon's shirt in the kitchen of their Soweto home before she leaves for work as her mother, Leah, looks on. The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg), South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Fruit for sale in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • View of the shantytown called "Silvertown", near Soweto, outside Johannesburg, South Africa. Architecture. Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Orlando Soccer Stadium fans during a Pirates vs. Durban game. Like many soccer stadiums around the world, the playing field is securely fenced to protect the team from the fans. Soweto, South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • A male lion lying in the grass at dawn in Kruger National Park. Northern Transvaal, South Africa.
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  • Mopane worm merchants in the central market of Thohoyandou serve as the intermediaries between the worm wholesalers and individual customers. "Mopane" refers to the mopane tree, which the caterpillar eats. Dried mopane worms have three times the protein content of beef and can be stored for many months. Eaten dry the worms are hard, crispy, and woody tasting. Thohoyandou, South Africa. (Page 132,133)
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  • Vendan children show off their haul of grasshoppers which one of their mothers cooks and serves with porridge. The children disagree on their preference of insects or meat, but all agree that the grasshoppers, as well as mopane worms, winged termites, and locusts, are adequate and enjoyable when no meat is available. Masetoni, Mpumalanga, South Africa. (Man Eating Bugs page 137 Top)
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  • The bells of Regina Mundi Church ring out, calling the faithful to Soweto's largest Roman Catholic Church for Sunday service, where they receive communion. Published in Material World on page 26. South Africa.
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  • View of the shantytown called "Silvertown", near Soweto, outside Johannesburg, South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • Downtown Johannesburg, South Africa at dusk. Material World Project.
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  • Poppy and Simon Qampie's main purchase at a supermarket is always corn meal, which they mix with water to form what is known as pap: hot cornmeal porridge. Published in Material World page 25..The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg) South Africa.
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  • Downtown Johannesburg, South Africa at dusk. Architecture. Published in Material World page 25. Material World Project.
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  • Portrait of Poppy Qampie's mother Leah Nosizwe, 64 in the kitchen of their Soweto home. She sleeps in the second small bedroom with the children.  The Qampie family lives in a 400 square foot concrete block duplex house in the sprawling area of Southwest Township (called Soweto), outside Johannesburg (Joberg), South Africa. Material World Project.
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  • A young boy takes a communion wafer during Sunday morning services at Regina Mundi Catholic Church service in Soweto, South Africa.
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  • Late afternoon laundry shadows play on the courtyard of a typical family compound in the village of Masetoni in Venda, in the far northeast of South Africa. (Man Eating Bugs page 122,123)
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  • Uahoo Uahoo, a warden at Etosha National Park in northern Namibia, stands in the back of his truck with his typical day's worth of food and observes a herd of springbok. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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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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  • Viahondjera Musutua, a Himba tribeswoman, sits outside the house at her father's village with her youngest son and her typical day's worth of food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Model Released.
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  • Sossusvlei is a clay pan in the central Namib Desert, lying within the Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. Fed by the Tsauchab River, it is known for the high, red sand dunes which surround it forming a major sand sea. Vegetation, such as the camelthorn tree, is watered by infrequent floods of the Tsauchab River, which slowly soak into the underlying clay. (from Wikipedia)
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  • Civil War Club of Napa Valley reenacting a battle at Skyline Park during a weekend long Civil War reenactment.  Napa Valley, California.
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  • The Ayme family on their way to the weekly market in Simiatug, Ecuador. The Ayme family of Tingo, Ecuador, a village in the central Andes, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. (Ermelinda Ayme is also one of the 80 people featured with one day's food in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The family consists of Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, 37, Orlando Ayme, 35, and their children: Livia, 15, Moises, 11, Jessica, 10, Natalie, 8, Alvarito, 4, Mauricio, 30 months, and Orlando hijo (Junior), 9 months. Lucia, 5, lives with her grandparents to help them out. (Please refer to Hungry Planet book p. 106-107 for a family portrait [Image number ECU04.0001.xxf1rw] including a weeks' worth of food, and the family's detailed food list with total cost.)
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  • Ermelinda Ayme buys food at the coop in Simiatug, Ecuador, which she says sells goods at  "the best prices for indigenous people." (From the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 110). The Ayme family of Tingo, Ecuador, a village in the central Andes, is one of the thirty families featured in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats with a weeks' worth of food. Ermelinda Ayme is also one of the 80 people featured with one day's food in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. 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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  • Selling sheep at a livestock market in rural Ecuador to raise money to buy food for the family.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Taking advantage of their visit to town at the end of market day, men (and a few women) visit the taverns to drink Andean beer  in Simiatug, in the central Andes in Ecuador.
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  • Dead Vlei is a clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei in southwestern Namibia. Dead Vlei is surrounded by the highest sand dunes in the world, some reaching up to 300 meters, which rest on a sandstone terrace. The clay pan was formed after rainfall, when the Tsauchab river flooded, creating temporary shallow pools where the abundance of water allowed camel thorn trees to grow. When the climate changed, drought hit the area, and sand dunes encroached on the pan, which blocked the river from the area. The trees died, as there no longer was enough water to survive. Sossusvlei is a clay pan in the central Namib Desert, lying within the Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. Fed by the Tsauchab River, it is known for the high, red sand dunes which surround it forming a major sand sea. Vegetation, such as the camelthorn tree, is watered by infrequent floods of the Tsauchab River, which slowly soak into the underlying clay. -Wikipedia
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  • A herd of oryx antelope near the Halali restcamp at Etosha National Park in northern Namibia.
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  • A Himba woman breastfeeds a child while sitting outside her home in Okapembambu village, northwestern Namibia, during the rainy season in March. The Himba diet consists of corn meal porridge and sour cow's milk.
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  • Mestilde Shigwedha, a diamond polisher for NamCot Diamonds in Windhoek, Namibia, drinks tea with a colleague during a break in the company cafeteria.  Diamonds are one of Namibia's major exports, and  while conflict diamonds grab the headlines, the fact is that the industry does provide a fairly decent living for many.
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  • A diamond polisher works on a gem in a diamond polishing factory at NamCot Diamonds in Windhoek, Namibia. Diamonds are one of Namibia's major exports, and  while conflict diamonds grab the headlines, the fact is that the industry does provide a fairly decent living for many.
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  • Mestilde Shigwedha, a diamond polisher for NamCot Diamonds in Windhoek, Namibia, in the kitchen of her rented house after a busy day at the factory. (Mestilde Shigwedha was featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Tersius "Teri" Bezuidenhout, a long-haul trucker delayed by paperwork at the Botswana-Namibia border stands next to his truck with his typical day's worth of road food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • In the town plaza in Simiatug, Ecuador, a woman sells a large paper cone of fried potatoes to people waiting for busses or passing by for 25 cents US. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Alpaca heads outside the slaughterhouse in the weekly market in the indigenous community of Zumbagua, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Young woman wearing a traditional Andean felt hat, Simiatug, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Making the long return trip to their home in Tingo, Ecuador from the weekly market in the valley, Orlando Ayme leads his father-in-law's horse, while his wife Ermelinda (center) carries the bundled-up baby and some of the groceries and Livia trudges along with her schoolbooks. Alvarito has literally run up the steep path ahead; like 4-year-old boys everywhere, he is a tiny ball of pure energy. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 109).
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