Description: Explores the connections of place, language, wisdom, and morality among the Western Apache.
Brief description: Keith H. Basso (1940-2013) was a rancher in Arizona and a professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico.
Review Quotes: "This is indeed a brilliant exposition of landscape and language in the world of the Western Apache. But it is more than that. Keith Basso gives us to understand something about the sacred and indivisible nature of words and place. And this is a universal equation, a balance in the universe. Place may be the first of all concepts; it may be the oldest of all words."--N. Scott Momaday