Traditional medicines at the home of Dr Mubita, a 'Witch Doctor' and...
Traditional medicines at the home of Dr Mubita, a 'Witch Doctor' and traditional healer who is often consulted on medical matters including schistosomiasis (bilharzia).
Female Genital Schistosomiasis...
Dr Mubita sits beside a store of traditional medicines at his home. The 'Witch...
Dr Mubita sits beside a store of traditional medicines at his home. The 'Witch Doctor' and traditional healer is often consulted on medical matters including schistosomiasis (bilharzia).
Female Genit...
Dr Mubita, a 'Witch Doctor' and traditional healer, who is often consulted on...
Dr Mubita, a 'Witch Doctor' and traditional healer, who is often consulted on medical matters including schistosomiasis (bilharzia).
Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) is a waterborne parasitic dis...
Dr Mubita, a 'Witch Doctor' and traditional healer, holds up a banner...
Dr Mubita, a 'Witch Doctor' and traditional healer, holds up a banner advertising his expertise. He is often consulted on medical matters including schistosomiasis (bilharzia).
Female Genital Schisto...
Traditional medicines at the home of Dr Mubita, a 'Witch Doctor' and...
Traditional medicines at the home of Dr Mubita, a 'Witch Doctor' and traditional healer who is often consulted on medical matters including schistosomiasis (bilharzia).
Female Genital Schistosomiasis...
A sign on a wall at the home of Dr Mubita, a 'Witch Doctor' and traditional...
A sign on a wall at the home of Dr Mubita, a 'Witch Doctor' and traditional healer who is often consulted on medical matters including schistosomiasis (bilharzia).
Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS...
The entrance to the cemetery in the town of Zitacuaro, painted with monarch...
The entrance to the cemetery in the town of Zitacuaro, painted with monarch butterflies. Local tradition has it that the monarchs carry the spirits of the dead, especially as the monarchs arrive aroun...
A 'Godya' speaks to people and tells them of their future during the AfroTurk...
A 'Godya' speaks to people and tells them of their future during the AfroTurk festival of Dana Bayram (Calf Festival), reinstated for the 10th year in 2016. Traditionally, 'Godyas' were female heads o...
Head of a 'Curiquingue' bird that Tupak Guatemal, a 29-year-old Karanki, found...
Head of a 'Curiquingue' bird that Tupak Guatemal, a 29-year-old Karanki, found on his walks to the moor. This object of power is part of his altar which itself is made in gratitude to his ancestors. I...
Ceramic icons which were made and used in India to rid villages of smallpox,...
Ceramic icons which were made and used in India to rid villages of smallpox, showing the goddess Shitala (the goddess of smallpox and other infectious diseases) riding an elephant on display at Dr Jen...
Shaman, Kim Pomishin, in a Buryati village in Selenga on the shore of Lake...
Shaman, Kim Pomishin, in a Buryati village in Selenga on the shore of Lake Baikal.
Crowned the 'Jewel of Siberia', Lake Baikal is the world's deepest lake, and the biggest lake by volume, holding 20...
Shaman, Kim Pomishin, in a Buryati village in Selenga on the shore of Lake...
Shaman, Kim Pomishin, in a Buryati village in Selenga on the shore of Lake Baikal.
Crowned the 'Jewel of Siberia', Lake Baikal is the world's deepest lake, and the biggest lake by volume, holding 20...
Shaman, Kim Pomishin, in a Buryati village in Selenga on the shore of Lake...
Shaman, Kim Pomishin, in a Buryati village in Selenga on the shore of Lake Baikal.
Crowned the 'Jewel of Siberia', Lake Baikal is the world's deepest lake, and the biggest lake by volume, holding 20...
Kim Pomishin, a shaman at a Buryati village in Selenga on the shore of Lake...
Kim Pomishin, a shaman at a Buryati village in Selenga on the shore of Lake Baikal, uses vodka to to perform a ritual for a ritual on behalf of his brother who owns a logging company. They are asking...
Kim Pomishin, a shaman at a Buryati village in Selenga on the shore of Lake...
Kim Pomishin, a shaman at a Buryati village in Selenga on the shore of Lake Baikal, uses vodka to to perform a ritual for a ritual on behalf of his brother who owns a logging company. They are asking...
Kim Pomishin, a shaman at a Buryati village in Selenga on the shore of Lake...
Kim Pomishin, a shaman at a Buryati village in Selenga on the shore of Lake Baikal, uses vodka to prepare for a ritual.
Crowned the 'Jewel of Siberia', Lake Baikal is the world's deepest lake, and t...
A shamanic 'ovoo' on a hill top near Tariat. An ovoo is a pyramid shaped...
A shamanic 'ovoo' on a hill top near Tariat. An ovoo is a pyramid shaped collection of stones, wood and other offerings, like vodka bottles and silk scarfs, placed on top of a hill or mountain pass as...
Firecrackers explode in the crowd as performers dressed as temple spirits...
Firecrackers explode in the crowd as performers dressed as temple spirits await the arrival of the palanquin bearing an ancient statue of goddess Mazu in the street outside the 200 year old Taoist (Da...
A boy from the Chod folklore group, chasing a girl with a willow whip in an...
A boy from the Chod folklore group, chasing a girl with a willow whip in an Easter Monday tradition, with pagan origins, when boys whip girls supposedly for good health, luck and fertility.
Children from the Chod folklore group, holding braided rods of willow. Custom...
Children from the Chod folklore group, holding braided rods of willow. Custom has it that men or boys would spank women on Easter Monday, a Czech tradition that dates back to pagan times. In 2021 this...
Forest plants on the back of a traditional healer's motorcycle in the Tobe...
Forest plants on the back of a traditional healer's motorcycle in the Tobe protected forest. Some 350 hectares in area, the forest had been severely degraded by agriculture. Over the last 35 years it...
Karin Ostertag and Dassi Bah, a Vodoun (Voodoo) adept, looking out over the...
Karin Ostertag and Dassi Bah, a Vodoun (Voodoo) adept, looking out over the Tobe protected forest. Some 350 hectares in area, the forest had been severely degraded by agriculture. Over the last 35 yea...
A fetish in the Tobe protected forest. Some 350 hectares in area, the forest...
A fetish in the Tobe protected forest. Some 350 hectares in area, the forest had been severely degraded by agriculture. Over the last 35 years it has been restored thanks to a partnership between the...
Sunlight filters through tree leaves in the Tobe protected forest. Some 350...
Sunlight filters through tree leaves in the Tobe protected forest. Some 350 hectares in area, the forest had been severely degraded by agriculture. Over the last 35 years it has been restored thanks t...