Wisdom Sits In Places Summary

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Wisdom Sits in Places, is an eighteen-month ethnographic account, that spans over five years (1979 to 1984), of the Cibecue Western Apache local knowledge, knowledge production, morality, and interpretation of tribal past through places and place names. The close analysis of the places and place names provides a local map of the Cibecue region, giving an uprooted population, the authority on contextualizing their attachment to places, their importance to their members, and the moral lessons that reside in places (xvi). Additionally, Basso worked with Apache members to create a physical map to document over 296 important place name locations that span over forty-five miles (45). Basso’s ethnographic fieldwork is presented in a semi structured

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Wisdom Sits In Places Chapter Summary

Quoting the Ancestors, chapter one of Wisdom Sits in Places, is about the idea of place-making, a process by which the Apache people constructed pieces of history in each place they visited. Each destination has its own descriptive name, such as Water Lies With Mud in an Open Container, which tells the story and history of the location. In this chapter, Basso is taught by a wise Apache, Charles Henry, that by saying out loud the names of different places, one is quoting Apache ancestors who…

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