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[email protected] CUNY DOMINICAN STUDIES INSTITUTE City College of New York Dominican Studies Working Papers Series KEEPERS OF THE MYSTERY (Preliminary Study of The FIESTAS DE CRUZ in the Dominican Republic) Maitreyi Villaman-Matos* Dominican Studies Working Paper Series 4 1999 138“* Street and Convent Avenue North Academic Center 4/107 New York, New York 10031-9198 Tel. (212) 650-7496 Fax (212) 650-7489 e-mail:
[email protected] KEEPERS OF THE MYSTERY (Preliminary Study of The FIESTAS DE CRUZ in the Dominican Republic) ) Maitreyi Villaman-Matos’ Dominican Studies Working Paper Series 4 1999 ♦Maitreyi Villaman-Matos is a poet, playwright, and scliolar. This research report is a preliminary result of her work during the Spring 1998 semester when she served as resident scholar with the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute under the auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowships Program. CUNY DOMINICAN STUDIES INSTITUTE The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute is an interdisciplinary research unit devoted to the study of Dominican life in the United States, the Dominican Republic, and elsewhere. The Dominican Institute has a two-fold purpose: the production of knowledge on the Dominican experience and the dissemination of such knowledge.