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Learning from Jorge Luis Borges
From The Companion Series Borges was never an ethnographer, yet his fiction may be among anthropology’s most methodologically provocative archives. He did not describe worlds; he fabricated them, and in doing so, showed how language itself makes reality. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (Borges 1941 [1999]) stages a world where nouns vanish, verbs proliferate, and perception replaces substance.…