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Wisdom Sits in Places
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"These narratives juxtapose a character whose mind is insightfully smooth with one or more characters whose minds are not."
When one is caught up in the demanding swirl of daily life-caring for children, keeping peace with relatives, trying to get by on very little money-pursuing the trail of wisdom can become just another burden.
Wise men and women are able to consult dozens of cautionary narratives in very short periods of time.
"Our Ancestors Did That!"
The story of:
Coyote Pisses in the Water
Grasshoppers Piled Up Across
Old Man Owl, the one called Muh hastiin
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Lessons to be learned from places
Follows the story of an old man that has lust after two women
Wisdom Sits in Places
“Wisdom sits in place. it’s like water that never dries up. You need to drink to stay alive, don’t you? Well you need to drink from places. You must remember everything about them.” (Basso 127)
Critiques:
"More precisely, dwelling is said to consist in the multiple "lived relationships" that people maintained with places, for its is solely by virtue of these relationships that space acquires meaning." (pg. 106)
Strengths: Chapter 4 was interesting to read especially with the detailed descriptions included with Basso's understanding of the relationship was a good thing because it helped him understand the Apaches.
Understand our relationships with places. Attending the relations can have a sense of richly living and feeling the Apaches.
Chapter 4
In Western Apache lore, wisdom is constituted as a continuous collaboration of three principles. These principles serve as psychological markers for the Apache metaphor “the path of wisdom”. “You Must make your mind smooth. You must make your mind steady. You must make your mind resilient” (Basso 126)
Wisdom Sits in Places
"... that the close companion of heart and mind, often subdued yet potentially overwhelming, that is known as sense of place." (Pg. 106)
Sensing Places
Weakness: The beginning of chapter 4 was boring since there wasn't a hook that intrigued me when reading.
Basso grieves the progress of industrialism, which separates people from their lands and supports efforts by the Apaches to protect their native lands.
"sense of place is neither biological imperative, aid to emotional stability, nor means to group cohesiveness...it is something people do"
One method of protecting the Apache involved understanding their deep attachment to their places, but Basso realizes that his professions were interested in his project.
Sensing places leads to self reflection and wisdom