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part of Mixe-Zoquean group
- In Mixe-Zoquean
…living in northeastern Oaxaca; the Zoque, primarily inhabiting northwestern Chiapas; and the Popoluca (not to be confused with the Popoloca), who live in eastern Veracruz and Oaxaca, about midway between the Mixe and Zoque. The languages of these people are closely related, and their cultures share a common origin.
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reckoning of kinship
- In Mesoamerican Indian: Social, political, and religious institutions
…in a few Mayan and Zoque communities, and they are common immediately north of Mesoamerica. Those and other facts have led some anthropologists to suggest that small preconquest communities were patrilineal clans or lineages. Named clans and lineages have actually been reported in a few present-day Tzeltal Mayan communities.
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