Mallku

Mallku

Mallku

"Leader" in Aymara language

Mallku[1] is a title roughly translating as "prince" or "leader" in the Aymara language of South America. They recognise an Apu Mallku as their "supreme leader" or "king". There is also an institution called the Council of Mallkus and Amautas which acts rather like an upper house of the indigenous parliament[2] of the Andes region and consists of four delegates from each of the modern Latin American states that comprise the Greater Collasuyu region.

References

  1. [1]
    Mercado, Geovana; Hjortsø, Carsten Nico; Kledal, Paul Rye (2016-04-01). "Public procurement for school breakfasts in the Bolivian Altiplan: Governance structures enabling smallholder inclusion". Journal of Rural Studies. 44: 66. doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.01.004. ISSN 0743-0167.
  2. [2]
    Vargas, Claret (2010-01-01), "Bolivian Indigenous Identities: Reshaping the Terms of Political Debate, 1994–2004", Representation Matters, Brill, pp. 193–203, ISBN 978-90-420-2846-3, retrieved 2023-10-24


Stub icon

This South America–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Mallku, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.