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no true anthropological or historical meaning and it tends to homogenize a large number of groups with different identities." Gabriel de la Luz-Rodríguez, a professor at the University of Puerto Rico, argues that what he calls "the invention of the Taíno" was an aspect of "colonial rhetoric" emerging from early modern European writers. According to Luz-Rodríguez, the scholar Adriana Lewis-Galanes also considered Taíno a concept "invented by Europeans in order to refer to a diverse constellation" of Indigenous peoples in the Greater Antilles.

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