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  • Learning from Jorge Luis Borges

    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.…