Keith Hamilton Basso is a cultural and linguistic anthropologist noted for his study of the Western Apaches (specifically those from the community of Cibecue, Arizona) since 1959. He currently teaches anthropology at the University of New Mexico. He is the son of novelist Hamilton Basso.
Basso was awarded the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing in 1997 for his ethnography, Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache. The work was also the 1996 Western States Book Award Winner in Creative Nonfiction.[1]
Select bibliography
- Portraits of 'the Whiteman' : Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols among the Western Apache (1979)
- The Cibecue Apache (1986)
- Goodwin, Greenville (compiler) (1971). Basso, Keith H. ed. Western Apache Raiding and Warfare. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arisona Press. LCCN 73-142255.
- Western Apache Language and Culture: Essays in Linguistic Anthropology (1992)
- Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache (1996)
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References
- ^ Basso, Keith H (1996). Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. pp. 171. ISBN 0826317235.
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