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With its well defined roles, the family is the single unit that binds Mayan communities together. Women keep house, preparing meals, raising children and tending livestock and the orchard while the man cultivates the milpa or cornfield, which is the mainstay of the household. Corn, beans, squash and chiles are grown in the milpa and the woman tends beds of coriander, radish, tomato, jicama, cucumber and chile and a variety of fruit trees.
Many familes also obtain some of their income from beekeeping and chicle harvesting. Although cattle ranching is a secondary activity, most families keep pigs and poultry.
The Maya of Quintana Roo produce wicker and straw baskets, hipiles (traditional cotton dresses) and wood carvings.
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