Le rituel du toro-tinku. Systèmes symboliques et structures sociales dans les Andes boliviennes
Every year at Easter, in the valleys of San Pedro de Buena Vista in Bolivia, several dozen bulls compete during the toro-tinku. Just like the ritual battles of the tinku, the toro-tinku opposes the inhabitants of the “upper” and those of the “lower.” But unlike ritual battles, it is practiced not by...
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| description | Every year at Easter, in the valleys of San Pedro de Buena Vista in Bolivia, several dozen bulls compete during the toro-tinku. Just like the ritual battles of the tinku, the toro-tinku opposes the inhabitants of the “upper” and those of the “lower.” But unlike ritual battles, it is practiced not by the Quechua-speaking and Aymara-speaking inhabitants of rural communities (comunarios) but by the mestiza population. The toro-tinku thus appears as a new form of competitive game which reveals how the mestizos drew symbolic elements from the comunarios to assert their domination in the troubled agrarian reform context (1953). |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9655ef10594542c889d5aa78edce6a8a2025-02-05T15:54:16ZengSociété des américanistesJournal de la Société des Américanistes0037-91741957-78422022-12-01108212515610.4000/jsa.21246Le rituel du toro-tinku. Systèmes symboliques et structures sociales dans les Andes boliviennesClaude Le GouillEvery year at Easter, in the valleys of San Pedro de Buena Vista in Bolivia, several dozen bulls compete during the toro-tinku. Just like the ritual battles of the tinku, the toro-tinku opposes the inhabitants of the “upper” and those of the “lower.” But unlike ritual battles, it is practiced not by the Quechua-speaking and Aymara-speaking inhabitants of rural communities (comunarios) but by the mestiza population. The toro-tinku thus appears as a new form of competitive game which reveals how the mestizos drew symbolic elements from the comunarios to assert their domination in the troubled agrarian reform context (1953).https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/21246ritualBoliviatoro-tinkupower relationsmestizo |
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| title | Le rituel du toro-tinku. Systèmes symboliques et structures sociales dans les Andes boliviennes |
| title_full | Le rituel du toro-tinku. Systèmes symboliques et structures sociales dans les Andes boliviennes |
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| title_short | Le rituel du toro-tinku. Systèmes symboliques et structures sociales dans les Andes boliviennes |
| title_sort | le rituel du toro tinku systemes symboliques et structures sociales dans les andes boliviennes |
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