View of massive die-off of black triggerfish on the beach on Ascension Island in the southern tropical Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean

Wearing tree bark cloth masks and skirts, dancers representing fish spirits are invited during the season of the peach palm harvest to drink the juice. it is a feast and ritual exchange: the host group offers the spirits large quantities of peach palm juice, smoked meat and fish, and shaman-blessed coca and snuff. the visitors are the costumed dancers impersonating animal spirits. people eat the meat and fish, animal spirits receive the fruits of peach palm, which are cultivated, harvested, and processed by humans. this exchange expresses the idea that people and animals depend on each other for survival and reproduction. vaupes basin, eastern colombia amazon, population: 600

The idea of the interconnectedness of all things is central to the tribal way of looking at the world. practical knowledge of the environment, of crops and medicines, of hunting and fishing, is a byproduct of it. the makuna believe that human beings, animals, and all of nature are parts of the same one. animals and fish live in their own communities, which are just like human communities, with their chiefs, their shamans, their dance houses, their songs, and their material possessions. when human peoples dance in this world, the shaman invites the animal people to dance in theirs. if humans do not dance and shamans do not offer spirit food to the animal people, the animals will die out and there will be no more game left in the world. for the makuna the radical disjunction so characteristic of western thought between nature and culture, men and animals, dissolves. eastern colombia amazon, vaupes region, population: 600

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Fishermen are bundling up a fishing net, beach north of Quelimane, Mozambique, Africa

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Fishermen mending a red fishing net, near Kasargod, Kerala, Malabar Coast, southern India, Asia

Fisherman carry nets with fish on the beach of Mui Ne, Vietnam, Asia

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Fisherman with a net standing in the water, near Beypore, Kerala, Malabar Coast, southern India, Asia

Woman carries baskets of fish, fish market, beach of Mui Ne, Vietnam, Asia

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Fishermen mending a red fishing net, near Kasargod, Kerala, Malabar Coast, southern India, Asia

Fishermen fishing the traditional way, in a small village at the coast around Varkala, Kerala, India, Asia

Traditional fish market, Bhamo, Kachin State, Burma, Myanmar, Asia

Fishermen fishing the traditional way, in a small village at the coast around Varkala, Kerala, India, Asia

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Fishermen fishing on a boat in Kollam, Kerala, India, South Asia

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Fisherman fishing the traditional way, in a small village at the coast around Varkala, Kerala, India, Asia

Women in the fish market, in the back colorful wooden fishing boats, beach of Mui Ne, Vietnam, Asia

Women carry their caught fish in buckets, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Africa

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Fishermen fishing the traditional way, in a small village at the coast around Varkala, Kerala, India, Asia

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Silhouettes of fishermen standing in the water at sunset

Fishermen fishing the traditional way, in a small village at the coast around Varkala, Kerala, India, Asia

Fishermen fishing the traditional way, in a small village at the coast around Varkala, Kerala, India, Asia

Women in the fish market, in the back colorful wooden fishing boats, beach of Mui Ne, Vietnam, Asia

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Fishermen fishing the traditional way, in a small village at the coast around Varkala, Kerala, India, Asia

Fisherman pulling in a net on a beach in Galle, Sri Lanka, Ceylon, South Asia, Asia

Fishermen holding a red fishing net, near Kasargod, Kerala, Malabar Coast, southern India, Asia

Women carry their caught fish in buckets, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Africa

Fishermen holding a red fishing net, near Kasargod, Kerala, Malabar Coast, southern India, Asia

Fishermen fishing the traditional way, in a small village at the coast around Varkala, Kerala, India, Asia

Freshly caught fish in a plastic basket, Beypore, Kerala, Malabar Coast, southern India, Asia