The head of an " ayllu " is called a " mallku " which means, literally, condor, but is a title which can be roughly translated as " prince ".
22.
Spaniards favored the individual " yanakuna " ( as they were an alternative labor force ) instead of the " ayllu "-based encomienda system, so the population continued to increase.
23.
Manco C�pac's tribe, or ayllu, only occupied a small fraction of the Cusco valley, the rest of it being inhabited by larger and more powerful tribes, who often would threaten the city.
24.
Ayllu were self-sustaining units and would educate their own offspring and farm or trade for all the food they ate, except in cases of disaster such as El Ni�o years when they relied on the Inca storehouse system.
25.
This role is, of course, a function of the sponsor's " outward directedness ", expressed in his ritual duties but represented as well in the terms of the asymmetric relations among exogamous patrilines within the ayllu.
26.
Following the " saya " subdivision, the empire was subdivided into " ayllu " lineage groups, which were then again divided into upper " hanan " and lower " hurin " moieties, and then into individual family units.
27.
First, as authority at the level of hamnlet, patriline, ayllu, and moiety, the jiliri conjoins the particular domestic groups of a hamlet ando patriline, the patrilines of the ayllu, and the ayllus of a moiety, by standing to all in an equivalent transitive relationship.
28.
First, as authority at the level of hamnlet, patriline, ayllu, and moiety, the jiliri conjoins the particular domestic groups of a hamlet ando patriline, the patrilines of the ayllu, and the ayllus of a moiety, by standing to all in an equivalent transitive relationship.
29.
Moreover, greatest authority, that accompanied by the power to impose sanctions by force, is said to reside in a body of officials known as the jach'a �il�r�s . the " great eldest brothers, " that is, in ayllu level authorities also known as alcaldes, alguaciles, and �a�as.
30.
After visiting Cuzco and being honoured by the emperor, Tanta Carhua was credited with saying You can finish with me now because I could not be more honoured than by the feasts which they celebrated for me in Cuzco . " Upon her return home, Tanta s father became the curaca of his ayllu.
