Thinku festival in Bolivia

Students practise the Thinku folk dance in the mountains near the village of Macha Photograph: Dado Galdieri/AP

A man leaves a church carrying a cross Photograph: Dado Galdieri/AP

Men walk past a funeral home Photograph: Dado Galdieri/AP

People attend mass as they stand behind crosses covered with ponchos Photograph: Dado Galdieri/AP

A woman watches from a doorway as people from different communities participate in a ritual fight Photograph: Dado Galdieri/AP

Quechua Indians from rival communities take part in a ritual fist-fight Photograph: Dado Galdieri/AP

Quechua Indians from rival communities take part in a ritual fist-fight Photograph: Dado Galdieri/AP

People watch the Thinku fights Photograph: Dado Galdieri/AP

Rival Quechua Indians charge in for a fight Photograph: Dado Galdieri/AP

A woman sits with her husband who had his nose broken Photograph: Dado Galdieri/AP

A bleeding man after the Thinku fights Photograph: Dado Galdieri/AP

A injured man stands in the street Photograph: Dado Galdieri/AP