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Claude Le Gouill, « Le rituel du toro-tinku. Systèmes symboliques et structures sociales dans les Andes boliviennes », Journal de la Société des américanistes, ID : 10.4000/jsa.21246
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).