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  • The celebrations in Pisac for the virgin of El Carmen take place every year. People from the area dress up in traditional costumes such as condors. <br />
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This essay is about the commercialization of the Incan culture in Cusco, Machu Picchu and all of the other towns and ruins that are part of the Incan Sacred Valley in the Andes of Peru.  Because of the large quantity of tourists that visit the sites year round, many natives have built their businesses around tourism. Everything "Incan" is offered and sold to tourists and tour guides invade every corner of this sacred sites.
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  • Ceci and Meme at a gay Milonga in Buenos Aires.
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  • Ceci and Meme after her birthday party when everyone came to her house and spent the night.
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  • The tips are split among all the dancers of a restaurant at the end of the night.
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  • The hacienda "La Mariana" where the Aguayo family lives.  Unlike many haciendas in the region, this family owns their land and works for themselves. Every year these rodeos are organized to celebrate the cowboys of Ecuador who are mainly in the coastal regions of Ecuador.
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  • Part of the yearly celebration includes a cocfkight held in Quevedo.  "Galleros," or cockfighters, form all around the country come to play their roosters and bet large quantities of money.  Every year these rodeos are organized to celebrate the cowboys of Ecuador who are mainly in the coastal regions of Ecuador.
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  • People watch Ceci and Meme dance outside one of the restaurants in El Caminito.
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  • Ceci goes to school after work in a taxi when she is too late to take the bus.
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  • Florea Radu, who was electrocuted while striping copper from power lines in Spain, is paraded down the street in Buzescu, a small town in Romania.
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  • Ceci and Meme outside a Milonga in Buenos Aires after a long night of working and partying.
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  • Ceci in her house with her family on her birthday.
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  • Ceci gets into a fight with her boss at one of the restaurants in El Caminito.  She was late because she was at school.  She eventually got fired from this place.
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  • Afghan horsemen compete for the goat carcass during a game of buzkashi in Kabul on April 23, 2010. The ancient game is an Afghan national sport, played between two teams of horsemen competing to throw a goat carcass into a scoring circle. AFP PHOTO/Mauricio LIMA
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  • Ceci dances with Meme most of the time.  It is better to have a partner who knows her movements and with whom she can practice tango coreographies.
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  • Ceci has to wear high heels as part of her attire on a daily basis.  Her feet suffer after hours of straight dancing day after day.  Ceci is 20 years old and has been dancing tango since the age of 11.  Her life and passion swirl around the sensual tango dance on the streets of El Caminito in Buenos Aires.  Here, she earns tips from tourists who watch her twirl and kick while they eat their meals.  Ceci's passion was handed down from her grandparents who started taking her to Milongas at a young age.  She tries to balance her work with her university, but most of her energy goes to dancing.  Here is a slice of the life of a tango dancer in the streets of Buenos Aires.
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  • For 17 years, teams from different states meet in the Chapada dos Veadeiros, GO, Brazil, to play under a waterfall. Even with no tradition of water polo, Brazil can boast of having the only championship made in heaven.
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  • For 17 years, teams from different states meet in the Chapada dos Veadeiros, GO, Brazil, to play under a waterfall. Even with no tradition of water polo, Brazil can boast of having the only championship made in heaven.
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  • For 17 years, teams from different states meet in the Chapada dos Veadeiros, GO, Brazil, to play under a waterfall. Even with no tradition of water polo, Brazil can boast of having the only championship made in heaven.
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  • For 17 years, teams from different states meet in the Chapada dos Veadeiros, GO, Brazil, to play under a waterfall. Even with no tradition of water polo, Brazil can boast of having the only championship made in heaven.
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  • Farmers from Toconce, a village that has partly sold their water, pray before an offering to Pachamama (mother earth) during the yearly "canals cleansing" festival, where men shovel the mud from canals that bring the water to their farms. But these days the work is mostly symbolic, since due to scarcity of water and the improvement of the canals there is almost no mud to shovel. But the festival is one of the few instances when the villagers meet again to revive their tradition, most of them have moved to live in the cities. Atacama desert, Chile. October 2009.
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  • For 17 years, teams from different states meet in the Chapada dos Veadeiros, GO, Brazil, to play under a waterfall. Even with no tradition of water polo, Brazil can boast of having the only championship made in heaven.
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  • For 17 years, teams from different states meet in the Chapada dos Veadeiros, GO, Brazil, to play under a waterfall. Even with no tradition of water polo, Brazil can boast of having the only championship made in heaven.
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  • For 17 years, teams from different states meet in the Chapada dos Veadeiros, GO, Brazil, to play under a waterfall. Even with no tradition of water polo, Brazil can boast of having the only championship made in heaven.
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  • Field of dreams<br />
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For 17 years, teams from different states meet in the Chapada dos Veadeiros, GO, Brazil, to play under a waterfall. Even with no tradition of water polo, Brazil can boast of having the only championship made in heaven.
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  • Farmers from Toconce, a village that has partly sold their water, pray before an offering to Pachamama (mother earth) during the yearly "canals cleansing" festival, where men shovel the mud from canals that bring the water to their farms. But these days the work is mostly symbolic, since due to scarcity of water and the improvement of the canals there is almost no mud to shovel. But the festival is one of the few instances when the villagers meet again to revive their tradition, most of them have moved to live in the cities. Atacama desert, Chile. October 2009.
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  • People dress of the nicaraguan traditional characters load a coffin during a simulated burial of the "Sadness and poverty of the soul' during celebration of the International Poetry Festival in Granada, Nicaragua, Wednesday, Feb 16, 2011.
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  • Afghan men and youths at a traditional hamam bathhouse in Kabul on April 30, 2010. Mostly Afghans come in the morning for one-hour sessions inside the steamfilled rooms, paying 50 afghanis (1 dollar) each before heading on to the mosque for Friday prayers. AFP PHOTO/Mauricio LIMA
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  • A Roma woman cleans the sidewalk outside her house using a hose in Buzescu, Romania. <br />
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Home of the Wealthy Roma (Summary):  Richly adorned multi-story mansions with elaborate turrets, balconies, pillars and adornments from across the history of architecture are not the first thing that springs to mind when one thinks of Roma, or Gypsies as they are disparagingly known across Europe. Yet in Buzescu, a small town of 5,000 inhabitant 50 miles southwest of Bucharest, the Romanian capital, the main street is lined with a most unlikely row of architectural adventures in a strange catalogue of pastel colours and oddly combined materials. On the streets between these clusters of gaudy castles, fleets of Mercedes slowly move over rutted streets. A third of Buzescu's inhabitants are Roma yet the ostentatious construction style dominates large parts of the town and challenges the received perception of Roma being a poor, itinerant lot, wandering through the countryside incessantly without putting down roots. Buzescu's Roma, most of whom are Kalderash or 'coppersmiths', are well known for their craftsmanship in making cazane, a traditional copper still used in making fruit brandy and the best craftsmen could fetch very respectable fees for their handmade cazanes. It was after the end of the communist regime in Romania, though, that the entrepreneurial spirit of the Kalderash came into its own. With industrial infrastructure being left to rot across the country and Eastern Europe, astute Roma were quick to realise the potential in the copper, silver, aluminium, steel and other scrap metals that were there for the taking. Many Roma were able to reap handsome profits in the unregulated commodity markets of the early post-communist era. The show of wealth in Buzescu is mainly for local consumption, and much of it remains on the exterior. Many of the villas still have outhouses and remain sparsely furnished inside. But the town has become a curious showcase of the contemporary self-
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  • Colombia, Mocagua, 2010. El puente. <br />
En la época lluviosa el nivel del río aumenta y cubre esta pequeña laguna que puede atravesarse gracias al ingenio local: una palmera caída sirve de puente. Entre tanto, los bordes son utilizados para la plantación de arroz. En la isla de en frente, se mantiene el sistema de cultivo tradicional conocido como chagra: nunca se siembra el mismo suelo dos veces. El chagra representa la unión, el respeto y el equilibrio con la tierra. <br />
              The bridge. <br />
At the rainy season the level of the river increases and covers this small lagoon which can be crossed, thanks to a local ingenuity: a fallen palm serves as bridge. In the meantime, the edges are used for rice plantation. In front of the island, the traditional crop system known as ‘chagra’ is used: the same ground is never seeded twice. Chagra represents union with, respect and balance of the Earth.
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  • Colombia, Amazonas, Macedonia, 2010. Macedonia. <br />
Macedonia es un diminuto poblado indígena clavado en la selva amazónica colombiana. Como el agua también fluye la vida de los niños que crecen a orillas del río más caudaloso y largo del mundo. Un misionero fundó este pueblo hace poco menos de cincuenta años; hoy día todos sus habitantes viven la doctrina evangelista que deformó sus tradicionales prácticas culturales. <br />
Macedonia is a tiny indigenous town in the Colombian amazonian forest. As the water flows it also shapes the lives of the children growing up along the shore of the most mighty and longest river in the world.  A missionary founded this town around fifty years ago; today all inhabitants live the evangelist doctrine that replaced their traditional cultural practices.
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  • The Bureata  and Stan families pose for a portrait on the Friday before Easter, in which traditionally everyone brings flowers to the church, in Buzescu, a small town in Romania.
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  • Colombia, Macedonia, 2010. Baile de disfraces. <br />
Los trajes tradicionales son hoy el atuendo de trabajo de las comunidades tikunas. Este grupo de mujeres espera la llegada de los turistas para vender la demostración de unos de sus bailes típicos alrededor de la fertilidad. Las mayores, aprendieron los cantos y movimientos como herencia de una cultura milenaria; las niñas lo reciben como mecanismo de inserción en la actividad económica de la región donde hoy prima el turismo. En las tareas del hogar, los nativos incluyen la fabricación de artesanías como medio de sustento.<br />
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Dance of disguises. <br />
Traditional costumes are today the work attire of the Tikunas.  This group of women await the arrival of tourists, to sell tickets for their performance of one of their typical dances about the fertility. The eldest learned the songs and movements as part of their inheritance from a millennium of culture; girls now are taught it as a way to be included in the economic activity of the region where today tourism prevails.  Household tasks now include the manufacture of handicrafts for sale as a means of livelihood.
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