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Winner of the 2001 J. I. Staley Prize from the School of American Research and the 1996 Western States Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Anthropological study of Apache concepts of geographical places and place names.

This remarkable book introduces us to four unforgettable Apache people, each of whom offers a different take on the significance of places in their culture. Apache conceptions of wisdom, manners and morals, and of their own history are inextricably intertwined with place, and...

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Reference Social Sciences History Philosophy General Reference Social Sciences - General & Miscellaneous Native American Studies United States History Linguistics & Semiotics Landscape & Environment - Social Aspects Native North American People United States History - Western, Plains & Rocky Mountain Region Language Families Place Names Human Geography Native North American Peoples - General & Miscellaneous Western United States - History - General & Miscellaneous Native American Languages - North America Native North American Peoples - Language & Linguistics

Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache