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

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.

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The 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.

Citation

Author

Keith H. Basso

Publisher

University of New Mexico Press

Publication Year

1996

Source Type

Ethnography

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Mexico

This source names Mexico directly: "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..."

Source Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western ApacheKeith H. Basso

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