{"id":5212,"date":"2017-05-10T13:06:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T13:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=5212"},"modified":"2017-05-10T13:11:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T13:11:38","slug":"big-time-masquerade-in-bolivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/big-time-masquerade-in-bolivia\/","title":{"rendered":"Big time masquerade in Bolivia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 Can you send us some pics from your trip to Bolivia?\u00a0 The Mask Man<\/p>\n

A:<\/strong>\u00a0 Here are 3 that seem to encapsulate it.\u00a0 The two clowns are from the infinitely less elaborate La Paz carnival.\u00a0 They represent the predominant character, Pepino, who is notorious for running around and spraying everyone with canned foam.\u00a0 The other two show the Oruro carnival. One is a nighttime shot of the \u201cTobas,\u201d a group representing the Incas who in native revisionist history conquered the invading Spaniards.\u00a0 Although the group is called Tobas and composed of both men and women, the masked characters themselves (always men) are called \u201cChunchos\u201d or \u201cIndios Chunchos.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0The third photo shows the Archangel Michael leading a group of diablos.\u00a0 Notice that several diablos have replaced the traditional dragon on the head with the Andean Condor, Bolivia\u2019s national bird.\u00a0 Strangely, the devil has gone from being the ultimate threat who staged mock battles with the angels to, in the present day, a patriotic lackey of the Archangel.\u00a0 Culture change in action.\u00a0 Aaron, 1150\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Q:\u00a0 Can you send us some pics from your trip to Bolivia?\u00a0 The Mask Man A:\u00a0 Here are 3 that seem to encapsulate it.\u00a0 The two clowns are from the infinitely less elaborate La Paz carnival.\u00a0 They represent the predominant character, Pepino, who is notorious for running around and spraying everyone with canned foam.\u00a0 The other two show the Oruro carnival. One is a nighttime shot of the \u201cTobas,\u201d a group representing the Incas who in native revisionist history conquered the invading Spaniards.\u00a0 Although the group is called Tobas and composed of both men and women, the masked characters themselves (always men) are called \u201cChunchos\u201d or \u201cIndios Chunchos.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0The third photo shows the Archangel Michael leading a group of diablos.\u00a0 Notice that several diablos have replaced the traditional dragon on the head with the Andean Condor, Bolivia\u2019s national bird.\u00a0 Strangely, the devil has gone from being the ultimate threat who staged mock battles with the angels to, in the present day, a patriotic lackey of the Archangel.\u00a0 Culture change in action.\u00a0 Aaron, 1150 Save Save Save Save<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5220,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212\/revisions\/5220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}