

Wisdom Sits in Places
Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache
Author: Keith H. Basso
Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen
Unabridged: 7 hr 14 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 08/28/2018
Synopsis
Most of us use the term sense of place often and rather carelessly when we think of nature or home or literature. Our senses of place, however, come not only from our individual experiences but also from our cultures. Wisdom Sits in Places, the first sustained study of places and place-names by an anthropologist, explores place, places, and what they mean to a particular group of people, the Western Apache in Arizona. For more than thirty years, Keith Basso has been doing fieldwork among the Western Apache, and now he shares with us what he has learned of Apache place-names—where they come from and what they mean to Apaches.