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Rik Raats
Feb 30 min read


No Bond Is More Secret— a Woman and the Universe of Her Horses
The Quiet Triangle: the Lady, the Horse, and the Third There is a persistent myth in equestrian culture: that the bond between a woman and her horse exists in splendid isolation. A closed universe. A sacred duet. Woman and horse, alone against the world. It is a beautiful image—and an incomplete one. Anthropology tells a more layered story. Across cultures, eras, and disciplines, the relationship between a woman and her horse is rarely binary. Almost without exception, there
Rik Raats
Feb 32 min read
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