Meaning & use
Ayllu
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A traditional Andean community or kinship group, based on shared ancestry and communal land ownership, historically central to Inca social organization.
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Members of the ayllu worked the fields together and shared the harvest.
Anthropologists studied how the ayllu system shaped land use in the Andes long after Spanish colonization.
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The ayllu system predates the Inca Empire and continues to influence rural community organization in parts of Peru and Bolivia today.
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