Reino Aymara

An Aymara Kingdom in 1567 Author(s): John V. Murra Source: Ethnohistory, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Spring, 1968), pp. 115-151 Published by: Duke University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/480555 Accessed: 26/12/2008 13:57
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AN AYMARA KINGDOMIN 15671 John V. Murra Smithsonian Institution It is common in contemporary studiesof the Aymara to find expressions of disappointment at the spare mention made of this people in the European chronicles dealing with the Andes (H. Tschopik 1946; LaBarre 1948). The area occupied by Aymara in pre-European times was much larger than it is speakers

today; their numbers could be counted in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions (Rowe 1947). While no overall Aymara politicalcohesion can be documented today, sizeable kingdoms are recorded: the Lupaqa, who are the subject of this paper, reported more than 20,000 households on what they alleged to be the last Inca khipu record (Table I). While some Aymara kings found their way into the chronicles, Tschopik was right when he complained (1946:512) that the [16th century] literature dealing with the Aymara is surprisinglymeager.' In part this is due to the Cuzco-centric orientation of the informants used by the European writers of the period. Most were members of the Inca royal dynasty who 'important provided what was essentially state, if not lineage, mythology. My argument, however, here as elsewhere (Murra 1961), is that much more information is available dealing with the local ethnic

groups defeated by theInca and incorporated into their kingdom, than has been utilized so far. In recent years I have published in Peru two such book-length 115

TABLE I

Ethnic composition of the 7 provinces, Lupaqa kingdom, according t which the lords presented of the number of Indians there had been times.. ." (Garci Diez [1567] 1964:64-66).

Alasaa Uru households ClU( UCUIO ACORA ILAVE JULI POMATA YUNGUYOZEPITA 500 440 figures 158 110 figures 186

Moiety Aymara households 1,233 1,221 unavailable 1,438 1,663 unavailable 1,112

Alaasaa Uru households 347 378 by moiety 256 183 by moiety 120

Moiety Total Aymara households Uru
households

1,384
1,207

847 818 1,070

1,804
1,341

414 293 381

866

306

Total number of household *includes *includes 153 households 20 households ofmitmaq from Chinchaysuyu. of mitmaq from Canas. Total number of Urtu Total number of Aymara

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2 dealingwith quite different Andean groups. These are not but administrative chronicles, reports of inspections known as compiled in the field by royal Spanish officials in the first few decades after the European invasion. While all the questions on...