Keith H. Basso

About The Author

Keith H. Basso (1940-2013) was a rancher in Arizona and a professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico.

Books by Keith H. Basso

Senses of Place

Edited by Steven Feld and Keith H. Basso

The complex relationship of people to places has come under increasing scholarly scrutiny in recent years as acute global conditions of exile, displacement, and inflamed borders-to say nothing of struggles by indigenous peoples and cultural minorities for ancestral homelands, land rights, and ret...

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Wisdom Sits in Places

Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache

By Keith H. Basso

Winner 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.