César Octavio Müller Leiva (13 August 1907 – 24 July 1996), mostly known under the pseudonym Oreste Plath, was a Chilean writer and

folklorist Folklore studies (also known as folkloristics, tradition studies or folk life studies in the UK) is the academic discipline devoted to the study of folklore. This term, along with its synonyms, gained currency in the 1950s to distinguish the ac ...

. In 1942, he began studying folklore, making trips to neighboring countries like Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina. In 1982, he was elected to the

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. In June 1973 he participated in the

Primer Congreso del Hombre Andino Primer Congreso del Hombre Andino (First Conference of the Andean Man) was an academic conference in northern Chile organized by the northern branch of the University of Chile in June 1973. Its subject was the Indigenous societies of the Andean wor ...

held in northern Chile. There he coordinated alongside

Julia Elena Fortún Julia Elena Fortún Melgarejo (9 October 1929 – 5 December 2016) was a Bolivian historian, anthropologist, folklorist, and ethnomusicologist, pioneer in this last field in her country. She was born in the city of Sucre but lived in La Paz f ...

the symposium on "Basic problems of the study of Andean folklore". However, the

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on September 11 hindered the publication of the

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1907 births 1996 deaths Writers from Santiago, Chile Academic staff of the University of Chile Academic staff of the University of Concepción Chilean folklorists Chilean male writers Members of the Chilean Academy of Language 20th-century pseudonymous writers {{Chile-writer-stub