PICTURES OF CULTURE: HOUSING, FOOD, DEATH

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2. Mud-walled West African city, Mali

3. Santa Fe, New Mexico

4. Victorian Home, Martha’s Vineyard

5. Sun City, Arizona. Sun City is one of the nations first planned retirement communities for active seniors. The community center is at the center of a hub of circular streets with white-roofed houses.

6. New house blessing in the village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Monks perform a ceremony that includes music and chanting. The whole village is treated to a special meal inside afterward

7. San Francisco, California. Daly City tract homes.

8. High-rise apartment with laundry hanging from windows and trash below in Caracas, Venezuela.

9. Ittoqqortoormiit Village, Greenland, still covered in snow, in May.

10. A typical house in Sawa Village on the Pomats River in the Asmat, a large, steamy hot tidal swamp. Irian Jaya, Indonesia

11. Delectable grasshopper (inago, from the Japanese Alps) marinated in a soy-sugar sauce.

12. Deep-fried giant water bugs with a sculpted tomato garnish in a restaurant in northern Thailand.

13. In the Golden Horn area of Istanbul, Turkey, the Çinar family gathers on the floor of their small living room to share their morning meal: feta cheese, olives, leftover chicken, bread, rose jam, and sweet, strong tea.

14. Two hours later, lunch is ready. Six-year-old Cui Yuqi reaches for a piece of smoked chicken in the family’s kitchen house. Other foods on the table include (clockwise from bottom) cauliflower and beef; pig’s feet; dried tofu curd and cucumber; cucumber and beef; steamed egg-white custard; stir-fried green peppers and beef.

15. The Al Haggan family and their two Nepali servants in the kitchen of their home in Kuwait City, Kuwait, with one week’s worth of food.

16. Enshrouded body, before cremation by the Ganges River

17. Brightly colored graves in a cemetery at Chichicastenango, Guatemala.

18. Bone Chapel at Kudowa Zdroj, Poland.

19. Day of the Dead festival honoring ancestors in a graveyard vigil in Mixquic, Mexico, outside Mexico City.

20. Fictional Representation and Caption: Interactive gravestones

21. Bird’s-eye view of Phnom Penh’s Wholesale Market showing how busy traffic moving through the streets can scarcely be differentiated from the buyers and sellers. Vats of deep-frying crickets as well as small frogs and whole small birds are found in this early morning market, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

22. Brawn’s florist shop in Westport, West Ireland, brightly painted in yellow and purple.

23. A lone woman in black chador (tent) walks along one of the labyrinth of covered streets and alleys that wind through the ancient mud brick city of Yazd, Iran.

24. 15-year olds smoke water pipes (hookahs) in a tea shop overlooking Imam Square, Isfahan, Iran. In the distance, a view of the magnificently tiled Masjed-e Imam (Royal Mosque) built by the Safavid ruler, Shah Abbas 1

25. A market vendor at Galewela, Sri Lanka, relaxes among his grains and spices while waiting for customers.

26. A woman carrying water in a plastic teapot in a traditional manner walks to the city of Djenne, Mali, on market day.

27. Semana Santa (Holy Week). Street processions are organized in most Spanish towns each evening, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday

28. (Hindu ascetics who are followers of Sadhus) congregate to bathe in the Shipra River during the Kumbh Mela Hindu pilgrimage held 4 times festival, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India. The Kumbh Mela festival is a sacred every 12 years, cycling between the cities of Allahabad, Nasik, Ujjain and Hardiwar.