Keith H. Basso is an American anthropologist. His main field of study is language and culture, with a special interest in the Apache peoples. While an undergrad student at Harvard, Basso spent the summer of 1960 on the Ft. Apache reservation. His experience with the Apache culture that summer would set the course for his future field of study. He earned his B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1962. Basso went on to Stanford University, where he received his Ph. D. He did some fieldwork in Australia, but it was the fieldwork he did in the American Southwest that held his interest. His long term relationship in Cibecue with the western Apache people that started in his undergraduate days still continues.
Basso was a Weatherhead Fellow at the School of American Research at Santa Fe, New Mexico and a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey. In 1967 he joined the faculty of at the University of Arizona as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology . In 1986, Basso joined the faculty at the University of New Mexico. After twenty years there, Basso retired from the Anthropology Department at the University of New Mexico, after the spring term of 2006. 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):
Meaning in Anthropology (1976)
Portraits of the "Whiteman": Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols Among the Western Apache (1979)
Western Apache Place-Names Hierarchies (1984)
Western Apache Language and Culture: Essays in Linguistic Anthropology (1991)
Senses of Place (1996(
References:
http://www.unm.edu/~anthro/newsevents/
http://www.unm.edu/~anthnews/pdf/spring06web.pdf
http://www.sarweb.org/staley/recipents/recipient01.htm
http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/001593.html
Written By: Rhonda Drescher
Edited By: Lillian Dolentz, 2008