Subsistence revolves around maize agriculture. Families live in separate structures, houses vary in form and material. Bride price usual and sometimes bride service. Serial monogamy not uncommon until children, and thus stability arrives.
Political organization includes a central building and a hierarchy of officials.
Political offices interwoven with a similar religious hierarchy. Annual change of offices in both hierarchies. Age hierarchy, especially among males, is notable and tied to performance in the civil-religious hierarchy. Death is followed by a one day wake. Annual cycle regulated by European calendar and punctuated by festivals, chief of which is the patron saint ritual.