Wisdom Sits In Places
“one must acknowledge that local understandings of external realities are fashioned from local cultural materials, and that, knowing little or nothing of the latter, one’s ability to make appropriate sense of “what is” and “what occurs” in another’s environment is bound to be deficient.”
“You can’t live long without water and you can’t live a long time without wisdom. You need to drink both.”
Basso follows the relationship of four Apache people to the land where they live, illuminating what it means to be at home in a specific place in the world: the opposite of an extraction-based culture and economy.