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- About Me:
- I've lived as a legal resident in the Dominican Republic since 1997, having fallen in love with the people, place, and culture back in 1984, during my first visit--I was in love with its history long before that. Today I feel like a tourist in the U.S. Even though I was born there, I've now lived longer in Canada, Spain, Puerto Rico, and Dominican Republic than in the U.S.
- Occupation:
- Administrator, cultural guide, teacher, writer.
- Education:
- M.A. and Ph.D. in Colonial History (with Anthropological focus) from Vanderbilt University in 1998. Fulbright scholar to the Dominican Republic in 1997. Two simultaneous B.A.s (History and Anthropology) from Michigan State University in 1992, with a Certificate in Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
- Contact Information:
- LGuitar@ciee.org or lynneguitar@yahoo.com
Phones: Except for June and July, 809-481-4656 cell, 809-580-1962 Ext 4466. Home phone year round: 809-582-6147.
- Research Interests:
- Taino history and culture, slavery and sugar in the 1500s, Colonial Hispaniola, Dominican popular culture from its origens with the Tainos through the additions of African, European and Asian elements across time (especially gender and ethnicity, and aspects of domestic culture such as language, music, religion, artisanry, child bearing/rearing, food, and home medicine/healing).
- Publications:
- Too many to list here, but most important are the chapters titled “Ocama-Daca Taíno (Hear me, I Am Taíno): Taíno Survival on Hispaniola, Focusing on the Dominican Republic,” coauthored with Pedro Ferbel-Azcarate and Jorge Estevez, for Indigenous Resurgence in the Contemporary Caribbean: Amerindian Survival and Revival, Maximilian C. Forte, ed. Peter Lang, New York, 2006; and “Boiling it Down: Slavery on the First Commercial Sugarcane Ingenios in the Americas (Hispaniola 1530-1545),” in Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives: Blacks in Colonial Latin America. Jane Landers, ed. University of New Mexico Press, 2006.
Am currently working on an illustrated Taino ABCs book that can be used to expand knowledge about the Tainos as well as to teach English, French, and Spanish as foreign languages; an historical novel about the "encountner" between the Spaniards and Tainos, told from the indigenous viewpoint; and the chapter on the Spanish-indigenous encounter in the Caribbean for a new Illustrated History of the Caribbean edited by Francisco Scarrano and Stephan Palmie, the latter to be published by the University of Chicago Press. Still seeking a publisher for the first two books.
- Affiliation:
- CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange); Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink
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So there must be male Y-chromosome heritage too.
greetings
Rubén
I read your work about "The False Myth of Taino Extincion" a very good work. Congratulations, You, Jorge, and others as well are doing a good work for Tainos, but for Mankind as well
greetings
Blessings
I look forward to learn more from you
Rubén
She has clearly, Taino features. hasn´t she?
Greetings
Thank you for adding me to your friend's page I look foward to some interesting exchange with you.
Taino Ti
Miguel Sobaoko Koromo Sague
My friend Juan Almonte, told me thac actor "Chuck Norris is half Irish and half Cherorokee.
So there are some Dominicans like Jorge Estevez, that shows, strong Taino features, even more than some Native Americans of USA and Canada.
So my theory is that among today´s indigenous descendants in DR or "kiskeya" there must be still full blooded, -or nearly- Tainos.
Male and Female, both
Whato do you think about it?
Greetings
Rubén
Also I was deleting post asking for you participation. But I deleted old posts.
It is Asturias and I know many Spanish inmigrants who returned from Cuba an DR, and they always told me that is some remote areas of both countries the "Indigenous survived" bioligical, cultural, linguistic, food, crops..
In the modern Spanish language we hace carib or taino words like Huracan, canoa, hamaca, and some others.
About you say the denial of Taino indentity, yes there are many Dominicans, who have emigrated to Spain the last years, that denied indigenous continuity in the Carribean, and what most surprised me is that in some cases they have Taino physical features. -eyes, hair, faces-
But past some time, once they know me, they told me "Well my grand-father or my grand-mother was "Indian". I don´t understand this attitude
Greetings
Ruben
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