Description
The complex relationship of people to places has come under increasing scholarly scrutiny in recent years as acute global conditions of exile, displacement, and inflamed borders-to say nothing of struggles by indigenous peoples and cultural minorities for ancestral homelands, land rights, and retention of sacred places-have brought the political question of place into sharp focus.
About the Author
Keith H. Basso (1940-2013) was a rancher in Arizona and a professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico.