Nomadic Rabhari tribeswoman walking in the Kachchh desert with camel carrying her possessions, Lakhdar district, Gujarat, India, Asia

Ivory and other possessions of the Paramount Chief Kalonga Gaia Uni are put in place for the Kulamba Ceremony, Katete, Eastern Province, Zambia, Africa

Traditional nomadic Rabari tribeswoman with her camel carrying her worldly possessions, resting in the shade of a tree, Gujarat, India, Asia

Nomadic Rabari tribesperson's camel carrying a family's goat and possessions, standing in the shade of a tree, Gujarat, India, Asia

Two families moving house with all their possessions, including cockerels, carried on bicycles, Nimaparha, Puri district, Orissa, India, Asia

Portrait of a fisherman and his catch, near to Anse Possession, island of Praslin, Seychelles, Indian Ocean, Africa

Man in trance during voodoo ceremony, Abomey, Benin (Dahomey), Africa

Humla, shamans. shamans central to ceremonial life, with their spirit possession high point of every collective ritual. Their white wool tufted turnans match description of zhangzhung’s priests

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

Person wearing mask in smoke

Elaborate sand castle on beach

Hotel Lodge Tamarin in La Possession, La Reunion, Indian Ocean

Woman jumping with shopping bags, joyful leap

Smallholder looking over the wooden gate to the neighbouring fields cultivated by a great land owner, soybean plantation, Gran Chaco, Santiago del Estero province, Argentina, South America

Germany : Illegal weapons, knifes, confiscated from young people

View of the marina , Port Vauban , Antibes , Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur , France , Europe

View of the Yacht Carinthia VII , Port Vauban , Antibes , Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur , France , Europe

Germany : Illegal weapons, knifes, confiscated from young people

Road to Santiago , event for the pilger , theatre style , Galicia , Santiago de Compostela , Spain , Europe

Glass-window in cathedral of Our Beloved Woman , Luxembourg , Europe

Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) in Scotland, United Kingdom

On the the road to the Allai Valley, a Pashtun family carries luggage past trucks that are stuck in mud and landslide debris-the trucks are full of other families and their possessions traveling back to their mountan villages, Battagram District, Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province. The region was one of the worst-hit by the October 2005 earthquake, and aftershocks and heavy rains continue to trigger landslides, which have hampered reconstruction efforts and the return of earthquake survivors to their mountain villages from the low altitude tent camps where many spent the winter.

Pashtun men clear rocks from a landslide that is blocking the road to the Allai Valley, and preventing many trucks full of earthquake survivors and their possessions from traveling back to their mountan villages, Battagram District, Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province. The region was one of the worst-hit by the October 2005 earthquake, and aftershocks and heavy rains continue to trigger landslides, which have hampered reconstruction efforts and the return of earthquake survivors to their mountain villages from the low altitude tent camps where many spent the winter.

Men from the village of Gangwal, which was devastated in the 2005 earthquake, show makeshift shelters that villagers constructed themselves after the quake, in the upper Allai Valley, NWFP, Pakistan. Most of the villagers fled to tent camps at lower elevations to spend the winter, leaving just a handful of families to look after livestock and possessions. The people of this remote area are Pashtun and until the earthquake, neither the government nor the military had much presence or influence in the region.

Vintage American cars sit on blocks below a deteriorating building from the Colonial era in Old Havana. Because of the blockade and economic hardships, cars are a precious possession and many are passed down from generation to generation.

At the Meira tent camp for earthquake survivors, Pashtun men load their family's possessions onto a tractor trailer as they prepare to leave the camp, where they have spent the winter, the Allai Valley, Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan.

At the Meira tent camp for earthquake survivors, Pashtun men load their family's possessions onto a tractor trailer as they prepare to leave the camp, Allai Valley, NWFP, Pakistan.

Cushioned benches in sunny conservatory, Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire, UK

Santeria ceremony, the woman in center is posessed by and takes on the character of an orisha or deity called by conga drummers, Havana, Cuba

Mafate cirque from the Cap Noir, La Possession, Reunion Island, France