Meaning & use
Ayllus
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Traditional Andean kinship-based communities that collectively hold and work land, historically central to Inca and pre-Inca social organization.
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Anthropologists studied how ayllus in the Peruvian highlands still manage communal farmland today.
The Inca state built much of its administration on top of existing ayllus.
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Ayllu is a Quechua and Aymara term; many Andean communities continue to organize land and labor around ayllu structures.
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