ABSTRACT
This chapter pays particular attention here to the case study of ayllu Qaqachaka. In more recent centuries, Norte Condo, together with Qaqachaka, formed part of the wider AymaraUrukilla federation of Killakas-Asanaqi. The author argued here that in the region of ayllu Qaqachaka, contacts and influences in the distant past from bellicose skirmishes with lowland groups, above all the Tupi-Guaran, in the Inka period and before, might have influenced regional warfaring practices. The psychosexual issues at play in these regional ideas concerning heads and their associated substances ensure that head capture and curation are not taken lightly. As hierarchically nested political systems, they would have achieved their coherence in part through the cultural patterns of a particular diarchic political order, represented through systems of conceptually female and male functions that overlay a series of more unstable and shifting alliances.
