Keith H. Basso. Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache. New Mexico, University of New Mexico, 1996.

What do people make of places? The question is as old as people and places themselves, as old as human attachments to portions of the earth. As old, perhaps, as the idea of home, of "our territory" as opposed to "their territory," of entire regions and local landscapes where groups of men and women have invested themselves (their thoughts, their values, their collective sensibilities) and to which they feel they belong. The question is as old as a strong sense of placeand the answer, if there is one, is every bit as complex.