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Explorers and outsiders have described the Zapotecs of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southern Oaxaca, Mexico a a matriarchy. The Isthmus is a place where women run the economy, where cultural identity is of utmost importance, where being fat is regarded as an ideal of beauty and where female ancestors displayed ingenuity and spunk in times of war and political resistance.

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