Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache Audiobook (Free)

This remarkable book introduces us to four unforgettable Apache people, each of whom offers a different undertake the significance of places in their culture. Apache conceptions of intelligence, manners and morals, and of their personal history are inextricably intertwined with place, and by enabling us to overhear his discussions with Apaches on these topics Basso expands our knowing of what place can mean to people.

Most of us utilize the term feeling of place often and rather carelessly when we think of nature or house or books. Our senses of place, nevertheless, come not only from our individual experiences but also from our cultures. Intelligence Sits in Areas, the first sustained study of locations and place-names by an anthropologist, explores place, areas, and what they indicate to a specific group of people, the Western Apache in Arizona. For a lot more than thirty years, Keith Basso is doing fieldwork among the Western Apache, and today he shares with us what he offers learned of Apache place-names-where they result from and what they mean to Apaches.