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"To Give up on Words": Silence in Western Apache Culture
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Combining methods from ethnoscience and sociolinguistics, this paper presents an hypothesis to account for why, in certain types of situations, members of Western Apache society refrain from speech. Though cross-cultural data on silence behavior are almost wholly lacking, some evidence has been collected which suggests that this hypothesis may have relevance to other societies as well.
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- Authors
- Basso, K. H.
- Venue
- Southwestern Journal of Anthropology
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1970-10
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 213-230
- ISSN
- 0038-4801 (ISSN-L)
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- W2223128323
- Cited by
- 490
- References
- 4
- FWCI
- 13.47
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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