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Aymara space : urco and uma Thérèse Bouysse-Cassagne Before the Inca conquest, the Aymara chiefdoms had organized Collao's space according to a twofold dualism oriented about a central axis (rio Azangaro-Titicaca, Desaguadero). This diametrical pattern, which embraced various ethnic groups, reinterpreted the main geographical features (i.e puna/valleys) and was expressed through a series of opposite terms (high/low, man/woman, right/left, fearless/cowardly) testifying to Aymara supremacy This logic Unking spatial regulation to socio-economic relationships was also noticeable in some ritual ceremonies The Inca domination substituting concentric pattern for diametrical one disrupted the former Aymara system while at the same time taking advantage of some aspects of the old system in fact precisely those that the Conquistadors also found way to exploit