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  2. Jorge Luis Borges - Wikipedia

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    Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (/ ˈ b ɔːr h ɛ s / BOR-hess; [2] Spanish: [ˈxoɾxe ˈlwis ˈboɾxes] ⓘ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature.

  3. Norman Thomas di Giovanni - Wikipedia

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    Di Giovanni was born in Newton, Massachusetts, in 1933, son of Leo di Giovanni, a landscaper, and Pierina (nee Fontecchio), who worked in a factory, [3] and was named after Norman Thomas, leader of the Socialist Party of America.

  4. Jorge Luis Borges bibliography - Wikipedia

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    Que es el budismo, 1976, lectures, written with Alicia Jurado, (ISBN 84-206-3874-9). Historia de la noche, 1977, poetry. Prólogos con un prólogo de prólogos, 1977, a collection of numerous book prologues Borges had written over the years. Borges El Memorioso, 1977, conversations with Antonio Carrizo (ISBN 968-16-1351-1). The title is a play ...

  5. Ethnography - Wikipedia

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    The Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a prolific ethnographer in antiquity. The term ethnography is from Greek (ἔθνος éthnos "folk, people, nation" and γράφω gráphō "I write") and encompasses the ways in which ancient authors described and analyzed foreign cultures.

  6. Frank Yerby - Wikipedia

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    Etnografo. Madrid. Archived from the original on July 7, 2014. Garibaldi, Korey, "The Business of Black and Interracial Children's Literature." Book History 25 (Fall 2022): 443-478. Hill, James Lee (1976). Anti-heroic Perspectives: The Life and Works of Frank Yerby. The University of Iowa. {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher

  7. Adolf Ellegard Jensen - Wikipedia

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    The Hainuwele myth of Seram Island was recorded by Jensen during an expedition to the Moluccas.. Adolf Ellegard Jensen (1 January 1899 – 20 May 1965) was one of the most important German ethnologists of the first half of the 20th century.

  8. Fernando Ortiz Fernández - Wikipedia

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    Fernando Ortiz Fernández (16 July 1881 – 10 April 1969) was a Cuban essayist, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist and scholar of Afro-Cuban culture. Ortiz was a prolific polymath dedicated to exploring, recording, and understanding all aspects of indigenous Cuban culture.Ortiz has been called the "third discoverer of Cuba", after Christopher Columbus and Alexander von Humboldt.

  9. The Other (short story) - Wikipedia

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    "The Others" (original Spanish title: "El otro") is a 1972 short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1901-1975), collected in the anthology The Book of Sand (1975, English translation 1977). The story is an ostensibly autobiographical account of Borges meeting his younger, 19-year-old self.