La tierra emparentada. Acerca de los muyu o "suertes" (sistema de barbecho sectorial) en marcapata, Perú

Abstract

This paper describes and analyzes the sectoral fallowing system of a sector of the Marcapata Collana ayllu (department of Cusco) from the perspective offered by other case of studies about the same system from both Peru and Bolivia, the rest of the agro-pastoral activities in which the Marcapatenian families are engaged, and the genealogical links existing among them. The aim of this work, aside from dealing with the specificities of the Marcapatenian case, is to establish in which sense and how far an economic or productive phenomenon could be understood from the point of view of the kinship relationships existing among the families engaged in it. Also consider its comparative scope in order to understand other similar case of studies in the Central Andes.