The ayllu, a family clan, is the traditional form of a community in the Andes, especially among Quechuas and Aymaras. They are an indigenous local government model across the Andes region of South America, particularly in Bolivia and Peru.
Ayllus functioned prior to Inca conquest, during the Inca and Spanish colonial period, and continue to exist to the present day – such as the Andean community Ocra.[1] Membership gave individual families more variation and security on the land that they farmed.[2] Ayllus had defined territories and were essentially extended family or kin groups, but could include non-related members. Their primary function was to solve subsistence issues, and issues of how to get along in family, and the larger community. Ayllus descended from stars in the Inca cosmogony, and just like stars had unique celestial locations, each ayllu had a terrestrial location defined by the paqarina, the mythical point of emergence of the lineage huaca.[3]
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The ayllu, a family clan, is the traditional form of a community in the Andes, especially among Quechuas and Aymaras. They are an indigenous local government...
among members of an ayllu. After local needs were satisfied, the state apparatus gathered all surplus that is gathered from ayllus and allocated it where...
themselves. Individual farmers were allocated land by the leader of the ayllu, the kinship group typical of both the Quechua and Aymara speakers of the...
Inca or his wife. The basic social institution of the Incas is the ayllu. An ayllu is a group of families that descended from a common ancestor, united...
crops and/or livestock. The land is usually owned by the local community (ayllu) and is either cultivated jointly or redistributed annually. Beginning with...
family units. The kurakas were the heads of the ayllus (clan-like family units) and of federations of ayllus, called chiefdoms or curacazgos. During the Inca...
but it also meant monarch or emperor. Kurakas were simply the heads of an ayllu, a group of families with the same common ancestor or place of origin (Paqarina)...
a record of Tanta Carhua, who was sacrificed as a capacocha in her home ayllu of Urcon. After visiting Cuzco and being honoured by the emperor, Tanta...
commissioned a llawt'u woven from vampire bat hair. The leader of each ayllu, or extended family, had its own headdress. In conquered regions, traditional...
lignage or panaqa was called Hatun Ayllu. He married Mama Anawarkhi or Anarwakhi (Coya Anahuarque), of the ayllus of Choqo and Cachona, most likely to...
Council of Ayllus and Markas of Qullasuyu (Quechua: Qullasuyu Ayllukunap Markakunap Mamallaqta Kunaqnin; Spanish: Consejo Nacional de Ayllus y Markas del...
exist, wealth was distributed, and resources were exploited rationally. The ayllus and Panakas had special songs through which they narrated their history...
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authorities and other main figures. He was, through his mother, a part of Capac Ayllu, the panaka of Topa Inca. His parents, Huayna Capac and Chincha Ocllo, were...
he was transformed into a rock to mark the possession of the land by his ayllu ("lineage"): Then Ayar Oche stood up, displayed a pair of large wings, and...
lived near Cusco at Paqariq Tampu, and uniting their people and the ten ayllu they encountered in their travels to conquer the tribes of the Cusco Valley...
Ruq'a). Yawar's wife was Mama Chicya (or Chu-Ya) and their sons were Paucar Ayllu and Pahuac Hualpa Mayta. Yawar's name refers to a story that he was abducted...
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mita instead of taxes which they paid by working for the government. Each ayllu, or extended family, would decide which family member to send to do the...
the mit'a was fulfilled, each hatun runa would return to their respective ayllu (community). Each battalion was made up of a single ethnic group, the whole...
Education Religion Mythology Architecture Engineering Roads Army Agriculture Ayllu Cuisine Inca history Kingdom of Cusco Inca Empire History of Cusco Chimor–Inca...
Coya Asarpay, Konono, and others Inca Runa Simi, Qhapaq Simi House Tumipampa Ayllu Dynasty Hanan Qusqu Father Túpac Inca Yupanqui Mother Kuya Mama Ukllu...
to vary among different ayllus. While the Inca generally allowed or even incorporated local deities and heroes of the ayllus they conquered, they did...
Education Religion Mythology Architecture Engineering Roads Army Agriculture Ayllu Cuisine Inca history Kingdom of Cusco Inca Empire History of Cusco Chimor–Inca...
pluri-national state. Some groups, including CONAMAQ (the National Council of Ayllus and Markas of Qullasuyu), draw ethnic boundaries within the Quechua- and...
word "ayllu", although this type of organization predates the arrival of Quechua speakers. Two political systems were built on the basis of the ayllu: the...
1994. Flores Aguanta, Willer. Calendario de fiestas tradicionales en los ayllus de la Provincia Bustillo. In: Reunión annual de Etnología 1993. Band 2,...
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