Keith H. Basso,his field of expertise is Anthropology

Keith H. Basso

Date of Birth :

Place of Birth :

Arizona,america

Country :

United States

Field of Expertise :

Anthropology

Educational background :

B.A from Harvard University in 1962.

Ph. D from Stanford University.

Acheivements / Contributions :

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.
His publications include:

Meaning in Anthropology (1976).
Western Apache Place-Names Hierarchies(1984).
Essays in Linguistic Anthropology (1991).
Senses of Place(1996).

Bibliography :

Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache,Portraits of "The Whiteman" - Linguistic play and cultural symbols among the Western Apache ,The Cibecue Apache .