Wisdom Sits in Places by Keith Basso

Well-written ethnography on the Western Apache people. For the Apache, the principle question of the past is found not in the when, but in the where. Places contain stories of the ancestral past and act as mnemonic devices that continue to convey a traditional ethics (basically what is good vs bad). 

Basso notes the lack of attention on the ways people use places in anthropological studies, and creates a foundation for anthropologists to think about the way their interlocuters use their places.

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