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Andean Culture and Ecology

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What is the purpose of placing a llama fetus in a field's earth shrine?

To ensure a bilateral claim to land
To bring new life to the soil and anoint the land for the year (correct)
To control the vegetational zones of the mountain
To feed the head of Mt. Kaata

What is the significance of an Andean ayllu?

A vertical system of colonization and kinship relations
A level of the mountain
A group of people related through patrilineal descent (correct)
A system of economic control

What happens when women in an Andean ayllu have an endogamous marriage?

They have control over the vegetational zones
They risk ancestor sickness (correct)
They move to the male's location
They inherit their mother's land

What is the symbolic significance of the apacheta on Mt. Kaata?

The head of the mountain (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of llama sacrifice among the Qollahuaya?

To ensure the death of the llama is the life of the ayllu's agricultural body (B) Signup and view all the answers

What does Andean verticality entail, according to Bastien?

Efforts to control as many vegetational zones as possible (C) Signup and view all the answers

Where do major ritualists (healers) live?

In large communities together (A) Signup and view all the answers

What is the significance of the 'lower son' in Aymara mountain-related rituals?

They ensure corn abundance for the mountain (D) Signup and view all the answers

What does Bastien mean by the phrase 'They feed it and eat it. They become the mountain and the mountain becomes them'?

The rituals allow for oneness with the mountain (C) Signup and view all the answers

What is the specialization of Kaata's ayllu since pre-Inka times?

Incense production and trade (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is the role of the Kaalaya ayllu?

Linking puna and yungas regions (A) Signup and view all the answers

What is the significance of kinship ties in the trade between Kaalayans and Yunga relatives?

It guarantees the exchange of goods (A) Signup and view all the answers

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