Keith H. Basso

Keith H. Basso
Portrait of American Anthropologist Keith H. Basso (1940–2013). Photo courtesy the Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico.
Born	(1940-03-15)March 15, 1940 Asheville, North Carolina
Died	August 4, 2013(2013-08-04) (aged 73) Phoenix, Arizona
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Harvard University (B.A., 1962), Stanford University (Ph.D., 1967)
Known for	Study of language and place names of Western Apache
Spouse	Gayle Potter-Basso
Awards	Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing, 1997
Scientific career
Fields	Anthropology, Linguistics, Native American studies, Linguistic anthropology
Institutions	University of New Mexico, University of Arizona, Yale University
Thesis	Heavy with Hatred: An Ethnographic Study of Western Apache Witchcraft  (1967)

Keith Hamilton Basso (March 15, 1940 – August 4, 2013) was a cultural and linguistic anthropologist noted for his study of the Western Apaches, specifically those from the community of Cibecue, Arizona. Basso was professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of New Mexico and earlier taught at the University of Arizona and Yale University.^[1][2]