Keith Basso's Wisdom Sits in Places, published by the University of New Mexico Press in 1996, is a widely cited scholarly study of Western Apache place-names and the narratives attached to them, written with named Western Apache collaborators at Cibecue. Its strength is that it is a peer-reviewed anthropological monograph built on sustained collaborative fieldwork rather than outside observation alone, and it remains a standard text in linguistic anthropology. Its limit is that it deliberately describes naming and narrative practice and no ceremony, by its collaborators' own request, so a claim needing an account of Western Apache ceremonial life needs a different source, one this book does not attempt to be.
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Published by the University of New Mexico Press in 1996, Keith Basso's peer reviewed monograph built with named Western Apache collaborators at Cibecue, a standard text in linguistic anthropology, treated at the top tier. NotesThe standard account of Western Apache place-names and of the narratives attached to them. Written with named Western Apache collaborators at Cibecue and cited here only for what it sets out about places and naming; it describes no ceremony.
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AuthorKeith H. Basso
PublisherUniversity of New Mexico Press
Publication Year1996
Source TypeEthnography
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- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Religions, 5 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Subcategories, 5 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Rituals, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Cultures, 2 claims: 2 general references.
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