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On 9 August 2005, we organised the celebration of the International Day of Indigenous Peoples (IDIP)<\/a> for the first time in the Dominican Republic (DR). The event was recorded and can be viewed here.<\/a><\/p>\n

For that occasion, I prepared a lecture entitled \u2018The Feminine in Ta\u00edno Culture\u2019, which I delivered again in the DR in October of that year, and in London in March 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Following the IDIP event, I wrote a summary which was published in the List\u00edn Diario newspaper<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For this web post, I have compiled the summary set out below, to which I have added a bibliography.<\/p>\n\n

The Feminine in Ta\u00edno Culture:<\/strong>
\nreligion, mythology, society, sexuality, history, poetry and magic<\/strong><\/h1>\n
On the island of Hispaniola, shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti, before the arrival of the Spanish, women and the feminine were present in many aspects of daily life and spiritual experience. With the discovery, a patriarchal worldview took hold, which relegated the memory of that feminine aspect to the background.<\/p>\n
The following text attempts to recover some elements of that lost feminine dimension. The exposition begins with a brief introduction to the name of the island and the Ta\u00edno word; it is divided into six parts: religion or deities; mythology; pre-colonial Ta\u00edno society; sexuality; history; poetry and magic.<\/p>\n
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Feminine in Taino Culture<\/p>\n Toggle<\/span>
Introduction<\/a>
1. Religion<\/a><\/li>
2. Mythology<\/a><\/li>
3. Society<\/a><\/li>
4. Sexuality<\/a><\/li>
5. History: Anacaona<\/a><\/li>
6. Poetry and magic<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li>
Conclusion<\/a><\/li>
Bibliography<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n
<\/span>Introduction<\/span><\/h2>\n
The present-day island of Hispaniola had two names<\/strong> during the Ta\u00edno period. Around 1556, Pedro Martir de Angler\u00eda attributed the name \u2018Quizqueya<\/strong>\u2019 (or, had they had a written language, it might have been spelled \u2018Kiskeya\u2019) to this island; in Ta\u00edno, this meant \u2018the greatest thing, with nothing greater\u2019, \u2018greatness\u2019, \u2018the universe\u2019, \u2018everything\u2019, like the Greek god Pan. For his part, the great Dominican writer and historian Emilio Tejera, in his work “Indigenismos”, attributes to the island the name Haiti (or, in its spelling, perhaps Ayit\u00ed<\/strong>), which in Ta\u00edno means \u2018high land\u2019. “Indigenismos” is the most comprehensive dictionary of the Ta\u00edno language in existence, comprising 1,383 pages. In my opinion, Kiskeya\u2014a female name\u2014was indeed the original name of this island. Over time, following incursions by other peoples and, above all, after the arrival of the Spaniards, the Ta\u00ednos began to \u201cflee to their mountains\u201d\u2014those that sheltered the last great rebel, Guarocuya\u2014and the name Ayit\u00ed came to prevail.<\/p>\n
Tejera defines the term \u2018Ta\u00edno\u2019<\/strong> as \u2018a man of good character. Good […] Today, this term is used to refer to the Antilleans of Arawak descent and to their language. Professor F\u00e9lix P\u00e9rez S\u00e1nchez states that \u2018it is an ethnological error to call the Arawaks \u201cTa\u00ednos\u201d\u2019. In fact, no ancient author applied that term with such a meaning, but today its use is so widespread […] that it has become established despite being an obvious error\u2019. The word \u2018Ta\u00edno\u2019 also exists in other indigenous cultures of the Americas. In Guaran\u00ed, one of the languages of the Amazon region, also belonging to the Arawak family, \u2018taihin\u2019 means \u2018people of a certain race\u2019 or \u2018people of a certain lineage\u2019, and in Aymara, the language of the Amerindian people living around Lake Titicaca, it means \u2018first-born\u2019. \u2018Ta\u00edno\u2019 was not, therefore, the name of the indigenous people who inhabited this island, but rather a simple word in their language meaning \u2018a good person\u2019.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, it is the magic born of the forgetting of factual details that leads us to call them Ta\u00ednos\u2014that is to say, good people. The Dictionary of the Spanish Language defines \u2018aboriginal\u2019 as \u2018native to the land on which they live. It refers to the original inhabitants of a country, as opposed to those who settled there later\u2019. The Ta\u00ednos were, therefore, the aboriginals of the island of Ayit\u00ed, later known as Hispaniola, which was subsequently divided into two countries.<\/p>\n
Fray Bartolom\u00e9 de las Casas, who arrived in Ayit\u00ed in 1502, wrote: \u201c…they are such a loving and unselfish people, and so well-suited to everything, that I assure Your Highnesses that I believe there are no better people or a better land in the world; they love their neighbours as themselves and speak in the sweetest and gentlest manner in the world, always with a smile\u201d.<\/p>\n
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<\/span>1. Religion<\/span><\/h3>\n
The deities of the primitive religion in Ayit\u00ed (by \u2018religion\u2019 we mean \u2018the body of beliefs or dogmas concerning the divine\u2019) have come down to us through the legacy of the Catalan Hieronymite friar Ram\u00f3n Pan\u00e9, who arrived in Ayit\u00ed on Columbus\u2019s second voyage (1494), in his brilliant little treatise “Relaci\u00f3n acerca de las antig\u00fcedades de los indios” (“Account of the Antiquities of the Indians”), which is the first ethnological compendium written in the New World. Among subsequent studies on this subject, those by the great Cuban structuralist linguist Jos\u00e9 Juan Arr\u00f3m are particularly noteworthy, especially his \u2018Pre-Hispanic Mythology and Arts of the Antilles\u2019 (1975).<\/p>\n
Pan\u00e9 notes in his preface that the supreme god is called \u201cYucahu Bagu\u00e1 Ma\u00f3rocoti<\/strong>\u201d. He says of him that \u201cthey believe he is in heaven and is immortal, and that no one can see him, and that he has a mother, but no beginning\u201d. On the one hand, there is Yocah\u00fa, who is the Spirit of the Cassava. On the other hand, Bagu\u00e1\u2014which is the name the Ta\u00ednos gave to the Caribbean Sea\u2014is the Spirit of the Sea. The most curious thing is that the Ta\u00ednos did not stop there; rather, in defining their principal deity, their cosmogony went further than that of Westerners or the Chinese by introducing a final nuance into their concept of the Great Spirit. This nuance is achieved through the addition of the term \u2018Ma\u00f3rocoti\u2019, which comes from \u2018ma\u2019, meaning \u2018without\u2019, and \u2018\u00f3rocoti\u2019, meaning \u2018grandfather\u2019, according to Arrom\u2019s translation; this literally means \u2018without grandparents\u2019, that is to say, the force of matrilineality. Thus, the Ta\u00ednos incorporate into the immanent Great Spirit\u2014the supreme deity found in the cosmogony of all indigenous American cultures\u2014an explicit recognition, right in its very name, of their primordial feminine principle rather than the masculine one, which is gradually being lost over time.<\/p>\n
Yocah\u00fa\u2019s mother was Atabey<\/strong>. Pan\u00e9 states that \u201chis mother [Yocah\u00fa Bagu\u00e1 Ma\u00f3rocoti\u2019s] is called Atabey, Yermao, Guacar, Apito and Zuimaco, which are five names\u201d. As the Puerto Rican professor Jalil Sued-Badillo points out, \u201cthe mother of the chief god […] has five names; the son only three\u201d. In Ta\u00edno society, according to this professor, the number of names acquired during one\u2019s lifetime reflected important mechanisms of social differentiation. Hence, it can be inferred that, for the Ta\u00ednos, the Mother Goddess was more powerful than her son. These names, according to various translations, would make this Goddess the Goddess of the Waters, She Who Is at the Origin, The Weaver, Our Moon (Force of the Tides), and The Benevolent One. She is, therefore, the Goddess who watches over birth, water, the moon, the tides, our menstruation and the weavers. In the Yoruba culture and language of the African slaves who came to this island in the 16th century, this deity would be equivalent to Yemay\u00e1.<\/p>\n
Whilst Yocah\u00fa, from an archaeological perspective, is mainly associated with trigonolites, Atabey appears in a wide variety of representations linked to a multitude of functions: general rituals such as stone cem\u00edes for altars, duhos or belts; rituals linked to the specific rite of the cohoba, such as vomit spatulas or inhalers; ornamental items such as necklaces, amulets and stamps for body painting; and items related to fertility, such as trigonolites, phalluses or stones used in childbirth. Likewise, Atabey is associated with numerous animals such as the frog, the snake, the inriri, the iguana and the owl, all of which are linked to fertility, life or the life-death-life cycle. The following image shows various representations of Atabey photographed in Miami from Alfred Carrada\u2019s private collection.<\/p>\n
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Guabancex<\/strong> is the Lady of the Winds. Pan\u00e9 devotes Chapter XXIII to Guabancex. He describes her as a female cem\u00ed who, when \u201cshe becomes enraged, stirs up the wind and the water, and brings houses crashing down and uproots trees\u201d. Arrom points out that \u201cit is well known that towards the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, hurricanes form\u2014which today, due to a strange misogyny, have come to be identified by women\u2019s names […] And the Ta\u00edno, by a curious coincidence, also identified them as the work of an angry female deity whom they called Guabancex\u201d.<\/p>\n
These would, in my opinion, be the three main forces of the Ta\u00edno trilogy.<\/p>\n
Hinduism, the religion of the Vedic civilisation that became established in the Indus Valley around 1,200 BC \u2013 curiously, the same date suggested by the 2005 archaeological discovery at Bayah\u00edbe for the civilisations that settled in Ayit\u00ed \u2013 also had a trilogy of forces at the pinnacle of the sacred: Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, who embody three forces: creation, preservation and destruction. Here we might draw a brief parallel. The creative force would be the feminine (Brahma, Atabey), the preservative force would be the masculine (Vishnu, Yocah\u00fa) and the force of destruction would be the task of the neutral energy (Shiva, Guabancex) . This third force could be the one within which to place gay men and lesbians; in other words, it would be a sub-force under the protection of the feminine, born with the task of transforming outdated pre-existing paradigms.<\/p>\n
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<\/span>2. Mythology<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
Ta\u00edno mythology (by \u2018mythology\u2019 we mean \u2018a wondrous narrative set outside historical time and featuring characters of a divine or heroic nature\u2019) is extremely rich. With regard to the feminine, it is worth highlighting, on the one hand, the myth of the creation of woman and, on the other, the myth of the ciguapa.<\/p>\n
The myth of the creation of woman<\/strong> could be reconstructed from Chapters II, VII and VIII of Pan\u00e9 and the interpretations of the Puerto Rican scholar Ricardo Alegr\u00eda as follows:<\/p>\n
Once upon a time, there was a great Ta\u00edno named Guahayona, who was upset because a man he had sent to gather the herb called \u2018digo\u2019 had not returned. So, Guahayona decided to leave the Cacibajagua cave and said to the women: \u2018Leave your husbands and children behind, and let us go to other lands\u2019. The women followed him; they all set out from Ayit\u00ed and, after a long journey, arrived at the island of Martinin\u00f3, where he left all the women.<\/em><\/p>\n
The men of Ayit\u00ed wanted wives and prayed to the heavens for them. One day, whilst they were washing, they saw a certain kind of being falling from some trees, sliding down through the branches; these beings had neither male nor female sex. The men went to catch them, but they fled as if they were eels. They called upon four caracaracoles\u2014people suffering from a disease that made their skin very rough. The caracaracoles caught them. Once they had caught them, they held a council on how they might turn them into women, since they had neither male nor female sex.<\/em><\/p>\n
They sought out a bird called Inriri, which drills holes in trees. And so, they took those women who had neither male nor female sex, bound their hands and feet, brought the aforementioned bird, and tied it to their bodies. And the bird, believing them to be logs, began its usual work, pecking and boring holes where a woman\u2019s genitals are ordinarily found. And in this way, the Indians say, they came to have women.<\/em><\/p>\n
Regarding this myth, one might venture to suggest that the story of Martinin\u00f3 is surely a true account which explains why on that island \u2013 believed to be present-day Martinique \u2013 was home to warrior women who were self-sufficient, perhaps lesbians, who only took men to conceive; and if the children born were boys, they were taken off the island and returned to their fathers. This could be linked to the Greek myth of the Amazons and to Sappho, the great poetess from the island of Lesbos, who lived in the 7th century BC, whom Socrates called \u2018the beautiful one\u2019, who was married, had a daughter and founded a sisterhood of women to seek love through refinement. Sappho, and by extension her sisterhood, is the origin of the term \u2018lesbian\u2019, a close counterpart to the women of Martinin\u00f3.<\/p>\n
As for the ciguapa<\/strong>, it was Javier Angulo Guridi who first wrote a story about this mythical figure in 1866. Manuel Mora researched this myth with true devotion, and his article on \u201cIndias, Vien Vienes and Ciguapas: News on three Dominican traditions\u201d, published in the magazine EME-EME in 1974, and his novel \u201cGoeiza\u201d, winner of the 1979 Siboney Prize, stand as a testament to this. In 2005, the archaeologist Gabriel Atiles published the following online: \u2018Genesis of a Myth. The Ciguapa, 139 Years After Its First Written Documentation: An Analysis of the Perception and Transformation of the Myth\u2019. Atiles stated that \u2018the truth is that the Ciguapa is a legend found throughout almost the entire country\u2019; although \u2018there is nothing in rock art tradition that tells us about the Ciguapa\u2019.<\/p>\n
The myth could be recounted as follows:<\/p>\n
The elders say that there are beautiful women, called ciguapas, who are small in stature, with dark complexions and black, almond-shaped eyes; with soft, lustrous hair so long that it is the only garment they wear; with long, slender legs; and with feet turned backwards. Some are even said to be beautifully feathered.<\/em><\/p>\n
The ciguapas are said to be wild women who possess magical powers, yet are completely harmless and extremely shy \u2013 even to the point of being frightened by people. The ciguapas are said to dwell in the mountains, usually in mountain caves, although they might also be found by river pools on new moon nights.<\/em><\/p>\n
The ciguapas are said to have a hunter\u2019s heart and would venture out at night from the mountain ranges in search either of lard and raw meat or of some night-time traveller to bewitch, love and then kill. If one were to look into her eyes, she would bewitch with her power, and if the man were to respond to her song, he would be lost forever. Encountering a ciguapa could mean being loved in an incomparable way, but it could also mean being torn away from the familiar to enter, forever, the dark, nocturnal world of the ciguapas.<\/em><\/p>\n
Ciguapas could only be captured with a black-and-white dog, with five-toed paws, on nights when the moon was full.<\/em><\/p>\n
Personally, I believe that, although Pan\u00e9\u2019s collection does not specifically mention ciguapas by that name, he may well be alluding to them in the prologue when he says: \u2018And they believe that the dead appear to them along the roads when someone is travelling alone; for when many travel together, the dead do not appear to them\u2019. Even back then, that superstition\u2014a fear of the night spent alone and of the unknown\u2014already existed\u2026 and over time, this lurking presence took the form of a magical woman\u2026 Of course! The magical has always been feminine.<\/p>\n
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<\/span>3. Society<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
Ta\u00edno society was a class-based society, much like Hindu society, at the pinnacle of which stood the caciques or cacicas\/caciquesas; next came the nitainos; the mass of the people who might be termed Ta\u00ednos; and, finally, the nabor\u00edas, who served the rest.<\/p>\n
I believe that the concept of social class amongst the Ta\u00ednos was not based solely on material wealth or possessions. From the little that was actually recorded about them at the time, it can be deduced that strength and spiritual development were important criteria for the natural selection of their leaders and for the stratification of their social classes.<\/p>\n
Following maxims attributed to the philosopher of Greco-Egyptian antiquity, Hermes Trismegistus, in the “Kybalion” and, specifically, the \u2018principle of correspondence\u2019, which states that \u2018as above, so below; as below, so above\u2019, it can be asserted that, just as the gods in Ayit\u00ed were predominantly female, so too was society predominantly matrilineal.<\/p>\n
Dr Marcio Veloz Maggiolo, in his “Prehistoric Archaeology of Santo Domingo”, states that \u201cmonogamous marriage and matrilineal succession<\/strong> predominated in Ta\u00edno society\u201d. He also asserts that \u201cwomen bore the brunt of the labour\u201d.<\/p>\n
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<\/span>4. Sexuality<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
Jalil Sued states that: \u201cFray Bartolom\u00e9 de las Casas devoted three chapters of his “Apolog\u00e9tica Historia” to demonstrating the \u2018superiority\u2019 of indigenous sexual customs over those of many peoples in other parts of the world\u201d.<\/p>\n
Ta\u00edno women had free access to the priesthood, to leadership roles in society and to a free sexuality. The Spanish culture that came to dominate, shaped by Catholic ideology, had progressively closed itself off from this.<\/p>\n
By then, the Catholic Church had already dealt three fatal blows to the magical-feminine. Firstly, by excluding women from the priesthood and relegating them to the role of servants of the Church (in the 3rd century, when the Gnostics \u2013 a Christian group that accepted both men and women into the priesthood \u2013 were deemed heretics) . Secondly, by removing reincarnation or metempsychosis from the Church\u2019s doctrinal corpus, which took place in the year 553 during the Second Council of Constantinople. As reincarnation is a \u2018magical\u2019 explanation that transcends what the patriarchal and linear mind can grasp\u2014and is therefore dangerous, as it eluded male control\u2014it was suppressed. Nor should we overlook the fact that one is always born of a woman. Thirdly, the definitive prohibition of priests\u2019 marriage during the First and Second Councils of the Lateran, in 1123 and 1139. By decreeing the absolute separation between sex and the sacred and by demonising sexuality, the West castrated its capacity to flow with and play with sex, thereby creating, fostering and spreading many atypical and unhealthy situations.<\/p>\n
By comparing this demonisation of sexuality and its separation from the sacred with the Taino conception, one can better understand the gulf between them. These two vastly different perceptions of the feminine, sexuality and the magical\u2014between the culture that prevailed in Ayit\u00ed and that which arrived from outside\u2014formed the underlying basis that turned the encounter into a tragic clash of civilisations.<\/p>\n
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<\/span>5. History: Anacaona<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
Unfortunately, there is no rigorous historical research on the figure of Anacaona (or, if there is, I am unaware of it). The great Dominican historian Demorizi does not even include the name Anacaona in any of his indexes. And yet, upon her brother\u2019s death, Anacaona became the chieftainess of Jaragua, the most politically well-structured chiefdom in all of Ayit\u00ed. Likewise, some believe that upon the death of her husband Caonab\u00f3, Anacaona became the chieftainess of Maguana. In the south there was another great female chieftain, Higuanam\u00e1. Together, the two held the southern part of the island under female control.<\/p>\n
The figure of Anacaona is depicted in historical novels such as \u2018Enriquillo\u2019 (1882) by Manuel de Jes\u00fas Galv\u00e1n; and \u2018Anacaona. The Queen of the New World\u2019 (2003), which the lawyer Fernando Hern\u00e1ndez D\u00edaz wrote to honour her on the 500th anniversary of that assassination.<\/p>\n
Fernando Hern\u00e1ndez recounts how Anacaona fought in the Battle of J\u00e1nico and was instrumental in freeing the other chieftains; she was present at the Battle of Guaco; and she was the only one amongst the chieftains \u2013 apart from Guacanagarix, who from the outset sided with the explorers\u2013 who defended dialogue with the outsiders right to the very end.<\/p>\n
Not only has no in-depth and rigorous historical study been dedicated to Anacaona, but she does not even appear in most encyclopaedias. It is sad to see that she is not included, whilst her nephew, Guarocuya, does appear \u2013 albeit under his Christian name, Enriquillo. Perhaps this has also played a part: Anacaona never converted to Christianity: she was the Great Queen and High Priestess, who performed her magical-religious rituals in a cave in a spot near present-day L\u00e9ogane, in Haiti, two and a half hours west of Port-au-Prince. Anacaona was a chieftainess who possessed sufficient dignity not to yield spiritually to the conquistadors.<\/p>\n
In my opinion, Anacaona bore many similarities to Isabella I of Castile. Both were women who knew how to combine feminine wisdom with the resolve of masculine action; both were women who had integrated everything that could be integrated into their being and were whole and wise.<\/p>\n
Anacaona was executed by Ovando in 1503, against the wishes of Isabella I of Castile. Had Anacaona and Isabella\u2014these two great women\u2014been able to meet in person and unite the strength of their feminine wisdom, perhaps the outcome of the discovery would have taken a different course.<\/p>\n
In the same year that Ovando executed Anacaona, 1503, the Trejo brothers brought the image of the Virgin of Altagracia to Hig\u00fcey from the small village of Garrovillas in Extremadura (Spain), the very region from which Ovando hailed. Thus a magical circle was closed.<\/p>\n
Here I shall venture a hypothesis: that the spirit of the supreme feminine embodied by Anacaona on this island before the arrival of the Spaniards went on to dwell in the heart of the Virgin of Altagracia\u2014that Virgin, Patroness of this country, who from 1503 onwards took up the mantle in Ayit\u00ed, moulded to the canons of the conquerors\u2019 culture, yet remaining the champion of the power of the feminine, the magical and the miraculous. On the other half of the island, in what is now Haiti, an indigenous image survives only in its Voodoo rites: Anacaona.<\/p>\n
<\/span>6. Poetry and magic<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
The Ta\u00ednos, as a sensitive and kind-hearted people, loved poetry<\/strong>. Hern\u00e1ndez P\u00e9rez de Oliva, in his “Historia de la invenci\u00f3n de las Indias” (1528), states that: \u201cThese fables, for want of a written language, were recorded by those people in metered verse… The priests knew them and taught them to the kings\u2019 children so that they might sing them at festivals, and others would hear them from them\u201d.<\/p>\n
Their speech, \u201calways sweet with laughter\u201d\u2014as I defined it at the outset, borrowing the words of Las Casas\u2014is very well suited to poetry, for recitation requires great joy; and as I wrote in a certain poem entitled \u201cFlowing with the Power of Love\u201d:<\/p>\n
\u201cA faith that on this island
\nis song, dance and laughter,
\nfor here even sorrows
\nare borne with joy\u201d.<\/p>\n
It would seem that Anacaona was also a great poetess. Baron Emile Nau, in “Histoire des Caciques de Ha\u00efti” (Paris, 1894), describes her as \u201ca gracious Queen and illustrious poetess\u201d. This quotation is taken from the novel by Fernando Hern\u00e1ndez D\u00edaz.<\/p>\n
I shall conclude with a poem which my imagination attributes to Anacaona and which she would address to my Queen Isabel (I have searched high and low for any trace of a poem written by Anacaona, but, unfortunately, I have found nothing). Three words appear in the Dictionary of Indigenous Terms, whilst two others form part of the melting pot\u2019s collective imagination (aurijuna for \u2018foreigner\u2019; and guaitiao for \u2018soul mates\u2019 who sanctify their bond by uniting their blood\u2026):<\/p>\n
Aurijuna Isabel Foreigner Isabel
\nIsabel Aurijuna Isabel the Foreigner
\nGuaitiao Isabel Sister Isabel
\nIsabel Guaitiao Sister Isabel<\/p>\n
Atabey Bagua Goddess of Earth and Sea
\nBagua Atabey Goddess of Sea and Earth
\nAtabey Ma\u00f3rocoti Matrilineal Goddess
\nMa\u00f3rocoti Atabey Matrilineal, my Goddess.<\/p>\n
<\/span>Conclusion<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
Ta\u00edno culture was imbued with the feminine from many angles, as has been outlined in the preceding lines.<\/p>\n
It would be wonderful if Dominican women were to become aware of just how special the femininity flowing through their veins is and, little by little, were to take up positions in society and politics commensurate with their great worth.<\/p>\n
For now, women are the main senders of remittances in this country, according to studies by INSTRAW, the United Nations Institute for Research and Training for the Advancement of Women, the only UN institute based in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n
We need the spirit of Anacaona or Altagracia to gradually empower other women in all other spheres.<\/p>\n
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Items from Alfred Carrada\u2019s private collection: forehead pendants; duho or ceremonial wooden seat; stone belt.<\/p>\n
<\/span>Bibliography<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
ALEGRIA, Ricardo E., \u201cNotes on the mythology of the Ta\u00edno peoples of the Greater Antilles and their South American origins\u201d, Centre for Advanced Studies of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, Museum of the Dominican People, 1978.<\/p>\n
ARROM, Jos\u00e9 Juan and GARCIA AR\u00c9VALO, Manuel A., \u201cThe Bat and the Owl in Ta\u00edno Culture\u201d, Ediciones Fundaci\u00f3n Garc\u00eda Ar\u00e9valo, 1988.<\/p>\n
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