Bolivian ancient ritual to world heritage
Bolivia: A Bolivian driving committee designs the proposal to
nominate an ancient tiku's ritual as Humanity Heritage, to be shown
before the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO).
According to the General Direction of Cultural Heritage, cited
Tuesday by the daily Change, the administrative group is conformed by
social organizations, the Civic Committee and the city hall of Mancha
(Potosi) from the ceremonial ritual come.
These entities will coordinate with people from Potosi to create a
project will be presented before the UNESCO in 2010.
Two month ago a group of settler from Mancha came to this city to
demand to the Culture Minister the respective support in the nomination
of the ritual before the UN specializing organism to be named Humanity
Heritage.
The Tinku is not a dance like people think. It is a clash of
liturgical character that be realized by population of northern Potosi.
According to researches the tinku term means "meeting", (from the
Quechua word tinkuy, to meet). In the last years, the ancient expression
suffered twisting when it was presented as a folkloric dance that
suddenly became popular, especially in the cities, and each time it go
far away of its own origin and means.
The anthropologist Freddy Maidana of the Bolivian Ethnography and
Folklore Museum (Musef) explains tinku is making with to search the
balance between communities of Potosi.
The experts also confirm the ritual is making not only in Quechua
population of Potosi, also in aymaras communities in the altiplano.
The tinku is celebrated each year in May, at the same time that the
festivities of the Cross in those regions. La Paz, Prensa Latina
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