Fernando Octavio Assunção Formica (12 January 1931 in
Montevideo
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– 3 May 2006 in
São Paulo
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) was a Uruguayan historian,
anthropologist, scholar, historian, and writer.
He specialized in
social anthropology
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,
writing works about Uruguayan folklore and the
Gaucho
A gaucho () or gaúcho () is a skilled horseman, reputed to be brave and unruly. The figure of the gaucho is a folk symbol of Argentina, Uruguay, Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, and the south of Chilean Patagonia. Gauchos became greatly admired and ...
.
Works
* ''Génesis del tipo gaucho en el Río de la Plata'' (1957).
* ''Usos y costumbres del gaucho''.
* ''Romancero oriental''.
* ''El
mate
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** Mate choice, intersexual selection
** Mating
* Multi-antimicrobial extrusion protein, or MATE, an efflux transporter family of proteins
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* Friendship
* ...
'' (Bolsilibros Arca, 1967).
* ''Pilchas criollas'' (1976, reeditado por Emecé en 1997). .
* ''Artigas, Inauguración de su Mausoleo y Glosario de Homenajes'' (en colaboración con
Wilfredo Pérez).
* ''El perro cimarrón''.
* ''Tradición, factor de integración cultural del individuo en la comunidad''.
* ''De Uruguay, América y el Mundo''.
* "Cuadernos del Boston", serie sobre los barrios de Montevideo, 1990–1993, en colaboración con
Iris Bombet Franco:
** 1. ''
La Ciudad Vieja'',
** 2. ''
La Aguada
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'',
** 3. ''
La Unión'',
** 4. ''
Pocitos :''Pocitos is also the colloquial name for the city of Salvador Mazza, Salta Province, Argentina''
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'',
** 5. ''
18 de Julio
Dieciocho de Julio or 18 de Julio is a small town in the Rocha Department of southeastern Uruguay.
Geography
The town is located about west of Chuy along Route 19. The next village to its west is San Luis al Medio
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'',
** 6. ''
Colón''.
* ''Uruguay, lo mejor de lo nuestro'' (con fotografías de
Julio Testoni).
* ''El tango y sus circunstancias'' (El Ateneo, Buenos Aires).
* ''
Colonia del Sacramento
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, Patrimonio Mundial'' (coautoría con
Antonio Cravotto
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, prólogo de
Federico Mayor Zaragoza
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, introducción de
Marta Canessa de Sanguinetti
Marta Canessa de Monserrat (born December 16, 1936 Montevideo) is a Uruguayan historian, academic and writer. Canessa, the wife of former President Julio María Sanguinetti, served as the First Lady of Uruguay for two non-consecutive terms - 198 ...
; Ediciones UNESCO, Montevideo, 1996).
* ''Epopeya y tragedia de
Manuel de Lobo
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* Ma ...
. Biografía del fundador de Colonia del Sacramento (1635–1683)'' (Linardi y Risso, 2003).
* ''Historia del gaucho'' (Claridad, 2006). .
* ''El caballo criollo'' (Emecé, Buenos Aires, 2008).
* ''Bailes criollos rioplatenses'' (con
Olga Fernández Latour de Botas
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* Olga (name), a given name, including a list of people and fictional characters named Olga or Olha
* Michael Algar (born 1962), English singer also known as "Olga"
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Russia
* Olga, Russia, ...
y
Beatriz Durante
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, Claridad, 2012)
Bailes criollos rioplatenses
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References
1931 births
2006 deaths
Uruguayan people of Portuguese descent
20th-century Uruguayan historians
Uruguayan folklorists
Uruguayan anthropologists
Cultural anthropologists
21st-century Uruguayan historians
20th-century Uruguayan male writers
20th-century anthropologists
People educated at Elbio Fernández School
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