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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Basso say the strength of the Apache language comes from?

2. What does Basso say almost ceased to exist in anthropology?

3. What did the people speaking of the ill brother construct, according to Basso?

4. How many children did Lola Machuse have?

5. What does Basso say infiltrated Western Apache society?

Short Essay Questions

1. What can't materialist models not give an explanation of?

2. What happens to children who do not learn to tie places and names?

3. What difficulty do linguists have with Western Apache?

4. What does Nick Thompson encourage Basso to do in June 1980, and what did Nick maintain about the Western Apache?

5. What does "speaking with names" illustrate?

6. How can cultural constructions be understood, according to Basso?

7. What is the strength of the Western Apache, according to Basso?

8. What do place-names generate?

9. Who was Lola Machuse?

10. What looks after the Western Apache, according to Basso?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine how children who do not learn to tie places and names with historical tales are affected.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the role of the ethnographer when immersed in a foreign culture with a foreign language.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the role of Nick Thompson in Basso's study of place names.

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