Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache Summary
Keith H. Basso

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Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache Summary

Wisdom Sits in Places analyzes the relationship between geographical location, cultural symbolism and place-names in the language and linguistic practices of the Western Apache tribe located in Cibecue, Arizona. The author, Keith Basso, is an anthropologist and ethnographer who argues that the field of anthropology does not study the relationship place, language and culture.

Basso first visited Cibecue in 1959 when he was a student. After writing about the Western Apache in...

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