Bolivia's Tinku: Ritual Fighting Turns Deadly

Tradition
Lisa Wiltse

Tradition
Each May, up to 3000 thousand indigenous Bolivian indians descend on the isolated mountainous village of Macha, 75 miles north of Potosi, in the Bolivian Andes to engage in Tinku, a ritualized conflict that pits villagers against each other in hand-to-hand combat.

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