Bloody Sunday Fight

Among the Free Walking Tour in the city of La Paz, the ride at 4650 meters above sea level by bicycle through the route of death and the circuits of extreme tourism that surround the Andean capital of Bolivia, every Tuesday and Sunday in the city of El Alto is given appointment to a fight of cholita...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Blázquez, Nahuel
Formato: Artículo revista
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades 2019
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/etcetera/article/view/25051
Aporte de:
Descripción
Sumario:Among the Free Walking Tour in the city of La Paz, the ride at 4650 meters above sea level by bicycle through the route of death and the circuits of extreme tourism that surround the Andean capital of Bolivia, every Tuesday and Sunday in the city of El Alto is given appointment to a fight of cholitas. The market and the State exotically produce a cultural consumer good to sell to a public, mostly foreign, the dominant emblem of Bolivian ethnicity: the chola.  But what is it to be a chola? Why do they fight? What imaginaries of the nation are at stake among the cries of an excited public, businessmen and women in polleras and bowler hats?