Basso, Keith H(amilton)
BASSO, Keith H(amilton)
BASSO, Keith H(amilton). American, b. 1940. Genres: Language/Linguistics, Anthropology/Ethnology. Career: University of Arizona, Tucson, assistant professor, 1967-71, associate professor, 1972-76, professor of cultural anthropology, 1977-81; Yale University, New Haven, Conn., professor of cultural anthropology, 1982-87; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, professor of cultural anthropology, 1987-. Member of Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., 1975-76; Weatherhead fellow at School for American Research, Santa Fe, N.M., 1977-78; consultant to the White Mountain and San Carlos Apache tribes. Publications: Western Apache Witchcraft, 1969; The Cibecue Apache, 1970; Portraits of "The Whiteman": Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols among the Western Apache, 1979; Western Apache Language and Culture: Essays in Linguistic Anthropology, 1990; Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language among the Western Apache, 1996. EDITOR: (with Morris Opler) Apachean Culture History and Ethnology, 1971; Western Apache Raiding and Warfare: From the Notes of Grenville Goodwin, 1971; (with Henry A. Selby) Meaning in Anthropology, 1976; (with S. Feld) Senses of Place, 1996. Address: Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, U.S.A.