Tag: Food anthropology

Photographer Matthieu Paley joins the Hadza of Tanzania–the world’s last full-time hunter-gatherers. The Hadza work hard for their food and reward themselves generously with marijuana.

The people living on the Greek island of Crete love their wine and eat a rich variety of foods drawn from their groves, farms, and the sea. Photographer Matthieu Paley captures the joyful people that have lived on the Mediterranean diet long before it became a fad.

Matthieu Paley photographs the Bajau of Malaysia, who fish and dive for almost everything they eat. Some live in houses on stilts over the water; others live in boats where they sleep, fish, and cook.

Photographer Matthieu Paley travels to the Hunza Valley in northern Pakistan where evening meals are a celebration not to be missed, with an assortment of chai and capatis sprinkled with apricot oil.

Photographer Matthieu Paley journeys to the Bolivian Amazon where getting a meal is a family affair for the Tsimane people, as children often scavenge for food and gut hunted animals.

The Inuit of Greenland have survived for generations eating almost nothing but meat. Photographer Matthieu Paley captures the bloody job of securing a meal in this remote territory.

Join photographer Matthieu Paley in the mountains of Afghanistan where no crops grow, the journey to get flour takes days, and goat eyes are on the menu.