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Herman, R. D. K. – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2008
Using storytelling from his experiences with the Western Apache, Keith Basso elaborates the notion that "wisdom sits in places," that is, the way in which social and cultural knowledge and guidance--wisdom--is based on experience. Because experience occurs in places, landscapes (and their stories and place names) can come to encode social and…
Descriptors: Cultural Maintenance, Geography, American Indian Education, Intellectual Disciplines