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

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Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache -- Keith H. Basso, PaperbackWinner of the 2001 J. I. Staley Prize from the School of American Research and the 1996 Western States Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Anthropological study of Apache concepts of geographical places and place names. This remarkable book introduces us to four unforgettable Apache people, each of whom offers a different take on the significance of places in their culture. Apache conceptions of wisdom, manners and morals, and of their own history are

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