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To Give Up On Words By Keith H. Basso

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Is silence a valid language? The book “To Give up on Words” is about the practice of the Apache communicating in silence. The author of the book is Keith H. Basso, he was a culture and linguistic anthropologist. Basso was a professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico. He also taught at the University of Arizona and Yale University. Basso obtained his bachelor’s degree at Harvard University and doctorate at Stanford University. I believe the author followed anthropological theory and methods in his book. The author researched the culture of the Apache as it relates to their silence among each other. The Apache believe that when the time is right, the strangers will begin speaking to one another (Rodolefsky, Brown, & Lacy, 2012).

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