Keith H. Basso is an anthropologist who studies language and culture. He has done fieldwork in Australia and the American Southwest. Basso's fieldwork includes a long term relationship with the Western Apache community of Cibecue which began in 1959 and is still there today. He received his B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1962. Basso received his Ph. D. from Stanford University. He was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey and the Weatherhead Fellow at the School of American Research at Santa Fe, Mew Mexico. In 1967 he joined the faculty of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. He became an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Basso is currently a member of the Anthropology Department at the University of New Mexico. He has written and edited many books. Basso has also written numerous articles dealing with language and culture.
Some books and articles by Keith Basso (written and edited):
1976
Meaning in Anthropology
1979 Portraits of the "Whiteman": Linguistic Play
and Cultural Symbols Among the Western Apache
notes on this book can be
located at:
http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/groups/gn/projects/salon/marinaverbal.html
1984 Western Apache Place-Name Hierarchies
1991 Western Apache Language
and Culture: Essays in Linguistic Anthropology
1996 Senses of Place
References
Basso, Keith H. Western Apache Witchcraft, University of Arizona Press, Tuscon, 1969
Basso, Keith H. The Cibecue Apache, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, NY, 1970
Basso, Keith H. Portraits of the "Whiteman": Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols Among the Western Apache, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,1979
Basso, Keith H. & Feld, Steven Senses of Place, School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1996
Basso, Keith H. & Selby, Henry A. Meaning in Anthropology, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque
Written By: Rhonda Drescher