César Rincón in the bullfighting ring
About this photograph
- Creator
- Margery H. Freeman
- Date created
- 1991
- Location
- Cartagena, Colombia
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2006. Terms of use
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- Bullfighting in Colombia: In this lesson for grade six, students study the history of bullfighting in Spain and Colombia as an example of how cultural traditions can be transferred from one place to another. Students analyze photographs of bullfighting in Colombia and discuss the cultural tradition of the sport and the controversy surrounding it.
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- Search LEARN NC for bullfighting, César Rincón, and Colombia.
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The matador César Rincón guides a wounded bull. The bull, its head down low to th e ground, charges the red cape held by the matador.
César Rincón is Colombia’s, and perhaps Latin America’s, most celebrated living matador. He is famous for his classic strategy and technique that recalls the traditional style of bullfighting. In this image the bullfight is approaching its final stages. The bull, wounded by several lances, rushes the red cape held by Rincón, as the matador nonchalantly draws the bull past him.
Bullfighting was brought to the New World from Spain during the colonial period. It is a highly-ritualized sport that still retains its popularity in Colombia. While increasingly termed a bloodsport and criticized by animal-rights activists, practitioners argue the sport is an important cultural institution.
