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  • A young boy and his  parents get ready to pose for the camera in a photographer's studio before going to a Shinto shrine for the boy's shichi-go-san ritual in Tokyo, Japan. During shichi-go-san, literally seven-five-three, parents dress their daughters aged three and seven and sons aged five in traditional costume and take them to a Shinto shrine to be blessed.
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  • A shichi-go-san ceremony ends with a miko, a Shinto shrine maiden, producing the music of the gods to impart health and good fortune, in Tokyo, Japan. During shichi-go-san, literally seven-five-three, parents dress their daughters aged three and seven and sons aged five in traditional costume and take them to a Shinto shrine to be blessed.
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  • On the last day of the Fiesta del Colacho in Castrillo de Murcia, Burgos province, Spain, el Colacho, the devil incarnate, jumps over the children born during the year, removing the evil he represents, while parents hold their babies still. The Fiesta del Colacho is held every year at the time of the Catholic feast Corpus Christi, and the jumping over the children is intended to protect them from illness and misfortune.
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  • A boy is circumcised at Kemal Özkan's Circumcision Palace in Istanbul, Turkey. His family have gathered behind him in support. The father holds a reassuring hand on his shoulder while the mother watches the procedure with discomfort.
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  • A family calls down the spirit of a dead family member with the help of incense at Todos Santos or All Saints Day in Oruro, Bolivia. An altar has been built at home, and it is the father of the dead man who kneels with the incense in front of it. Beside him kneels the widow, and to the right stands the mother. In the Altiplano of Bolivia, it is customary that a family, in which there has been a death within the last three years, build a shrine at home at Todos Santos, decorating it with religious symbols as well as a picture of the deceased and food and drink that he or she liked, and then call down the spirit for a three day visit. During the spirit’s visit, the family and friends chew coca leaves, drink alcohol and eat food together.
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  • A mother captures the moment when a photographer takes a picture of her daughter after she has gone through the shichi-go-san ceremony at the Heian Jingu shrine, in Kyoto, Japan. During shichi-go-san, literally seven-five-three, parents dress their daughters aged three and seven and sons aged five in traditional costume and take them to a Shinto shrine to be blessed.
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  • A young Newar girl, who has been secluded in a room at home for twelve days during her barha ceremony, is taken to the roof of the family house to show herself to the sun god Surya, Kathmandu, Nepal. The barha is a Newar mock first-menstruation rite, held before the girl's first menstruation. During the seclusion, no male above the age of initiation is allowed to see the girl, and the windows of the room are covered so that the rays of the sun god, who is a male, cannot shine on her. The ceremony is also a mock-marriage, as it is said that the girl is married to Surya when she shows herself to him after the seclusion. The mother is standing behind the girl.
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  • Young Roma woman with her daughter during the wake for a deceased relative in the village of Valea Seaca in Bacau County, Romania.
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  • Two Roma infants and their mothers during a baby dedication ceremony in the Pentecostal church in the village of Valea Seaca in Bacau County, Romania.
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  • Crina Sarda, Romanian Kalderash Roma and EU migrant, sitting in a borrowed apartment in Sweden with her swaddled baby son in her lap
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  • Sergiu Pruteanu, Romanian Ursari Roma living in Sweden with his family
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  • Young Roma woman with son and two young male members of her group in a temporary camp in the village of  Dersca in Botosani County, Romania. They are Kelderari Roma, known for their skill in metal work, and their group has been permitted to set up camp in the farming village of Dersca, where they offer their services to the local inhabitants.
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  • Roma family in their home in the all-Roma village of Unguraia in Botosani County, Romania. The mother sits with the youngest child on her lap inside one of the rooms while the father and a son stand in the hallway outside. They have three more children, all of them girls.
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  • A Roma man makes a dustpan from scrap metal in a temporary camp in the village of  Dersca in Botosani County, Romania, while a young woman carrying her son on her hip watches him. They are Kelderari Roma, known for their skill in metal work, and their group has been permitted to set up camp in the farming village of Dersca, where they offer their services to the local inhabitants.
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  • A mother nurses her baby daughter during a break from one of the many hot baths required for her ngasech, the traditional ceremony that all women in Palau undergo after having given birth for the first time. Palau, Micronesia, in February, 2005.
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  • Girls and their mothers scatter grains of rice as an offering to the gods while a priest conducts the rituals for the girls’ Ihi ceremony, a mock marriage to the Hindu god Vishnu, in Patan in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Among the Newars, who are the original inhabitants of the Kathmandu Valley, every girl goes through this ceremony sometime between the age of five and ten. The Ihi makes the girl a full member of her father's family and caste and is also said to make sure that she will never become a widow, even if later on her future human husband would die, since she will forever be married to the god Vishnu. The Ihi is therefore for the Newar women a protection against the stigmatization of widows otherwise common in Hindu culture.
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  • Fathers hold their daughters in their laps as they give them away in marriage at the girls’ Ihi ceremony, a mock marriage to the Hindu god Vishnu, in Patan in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Among the Newars, who are the original inhabitants of the Kathmandu Valley, every girl goes through this ceremony sometime between the age of five and ten. The Ihi makes the girl a full member of her father's family and caste and is also said to make sure that she will never become a widow, even if later on her future human husband would die, since she will forever be married to the god Vishnu. The Ihi is therefore for the Newar women a protection against the stigmatization of widows otherwise common in Hindu culture.
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  • Newar woman with her daughter at the daughter's Ihi ceremony, a mock marriage to the Hindu god Vishnu, Patan, the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Among the Newars, who are the original inhabitants of the Kathmandu Valley, every girl goes through this ceremony sometime between the age of five and ten. The Ihi makes the girl a full member of her father's family and caste and is also said to make sure that she will never become a widow, even if later on her future human husband would die, since she will forever be married to the god Vishnu. The Ihi is therefore for the Newar women a protection against the stigmatization of widows otherwise common in Hindu culture.
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  • Procession with young boys dressed up as princes during Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand. April 2003. The invisible guardian spirit of the town rides on the horse in front.
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  • A Roma feamle beggar from Romania sit with three of her children in the family minibus in a parking lot in Uppsala, Sweden. The children are looked after by the father while the mother begs in the streets of the town during the day.
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  • Hans and Gino Taikon, father and son and Swedish Kalderash Roma, play the accordion together
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  • A Roma woman and two of her daughters sit on a bed in their home in the farming village of  Dimacheni in Botosani County, Romania. She lives with her husband and their children in a two-room house. The stove in the picture is used both for cooking and for heating up the room.
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  • Devastating April 2015 Nepal Earthquake. Panga Village, Kirtipur, Kathmandu Valley. A woman feeding  her baby in a tent camp set up in an open field. Out of fear of new quakes, the days after the earthquake struck everybody slept outside of their homes. More than a third of the houses in Panga were destroyed, most of them old traditional houses made of brick.
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  • Roma mother with children in their temporary home in a communist-era barn which the authorities of the town of Roman in Romania have partitioned into sleeping quarters for homeless Roma.
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  • Roma father with daughter in front of their home in the village of Slobozia in Iasi County, Romania. The name Slobozia means ”The Free Ones". The village is said to have been settled by runaway Roma slaves in the times of slavery in Romania. The enslavement of the Roma in Romania was officially abolished in the 1850's.
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  • A girl, standing in the cemetery of Oruro, Bolivia, at Todos Santos, holds up a picture with a photograph and the name of her dead father. In the Altiplano of Bolivia, it is customary that a family, in which there has been a death within the last three years, call down the spirit for a three day visit at Todos Santos. On the third day, when the spirit leaves the home, the families go to the cemeteries to decorate the graves and say farewell to the soul of the dead.
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  • Newly circumcised, a nine-year-old boy who lives in a suburb of Istanbul, Turkey, proudly poses in his sultan outfit, which is the customary attire at circumcision. He stands beside his bed which his parents have worked hard to make fit for a sultan.
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  • A girl has her hair fixed in traditional style for her shichi-go-san in Tokyo, Japan. During shichi-go-san, literally seven-five-three, parents dress their daughters aged three and seven and sons aged five in traditional costume and take them to a Shinto shrine to be blessed.
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  • Two girls hold bags of ”thousand year sweets”, long pieces of candy symbolising longevity, which have been given to them at their shichi-go-san, in Tokyo, Japan. During shichi-go-san, literally seven-five-three, parents dress their daughters aged three and seven and sons aged five in traditional costume and take them to a Shinto shrine to be blessed.
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  • Respectful bows from the family and the priest end a shichi-go-san ritual inside the Aoto Jinja shrine in Tokyo, Japan. During shichi-go-san, literally seven-five-three, parents dress their daughters aged three and seven and sons aged five in traditional costume and take them to a Shinto shrine to be blessed.
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  • A three-and-a-half-year-old boy waits to be circumcised at his home in Istanbul, Turkey. He is younger than the usual circumcision age because his parents want him to undergo the ritual together with his older brother.  Custom dictates that boys are dressed up as small sultans or princes at their circumcision, and the cloaks and hats and sceptres of the two boys are scattered on the sofa on which the boy is sitting. The boy will be circumcised by a licensed circumciser.
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  • Two young boys and their older brother just before their shichi-go-san in the Meiji Jingu shrine, in Tokyo, Japan. During shichi-go-san, literally seven-five-three, parents dress their daughters aged three and seven and sons aged five in traditional costume and take them to a Shinto shrine to be blessed. Sometimes boys perform the ceremony at the age of three, though in bygone times they were not supposed to wear hakama trousers until they were older.
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  • During a galekana ceremony, an elderly Hamar man blesses an infant by spraying it with a mouthful of coffee, in South Omo, Ethiopia, in October, 2006. After this ceremony the parents can resume their sexual relation and bring more children into the world. The 40,000-strong, cattle-herding Hamar are among the largest of the 20 or so ethnic groups which inhabit the culturally diverse South Omo region in south-west Ethiopia.
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  • A Hamar bride who following local traditions lives alone in the loft of her parents-in-law's home for three months before consummating the marriage, in South Omo, Ethiopia. She is covered from top to toe in red ochre and butter to ward off evil.  The 40,000-strong, cattle-herding Hamar are among the largest of the 20 or so ethnic groups which inhabit the culturally diverse South Omo region in south-west Ethiopia.
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