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Book Reviews of Portraits of 'the Whiteman' : Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols among the Western Apache

Portraits of 'the Whiteman' : Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols among the Western Apache
Portraits of 'the Whiteman' Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols among the Western Apache
Author: Keith H. Basso
ISBN-13: 9780521295932
ISBN-10: 0521295939
Publication Date: 8/31/1979
Pages: 144
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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Interesting view, we make fun of things that make us uncomfortable.
quote within the book:
"the more desperate the problem, the more humor is directed to describe it."
-Vine Deloria, Jr