Education
After first studying Apache culture in 1959, Basso completed a bachelor"s degree at Harvard University (Bachelor, 1962) and then took the doctorate at Stanford University (Doctor of Philosophy, 1967).
After first studying Apache culture in 1959, Basso completed a bachelor"s degree at Harvard University (Bachelor, 1962) and then took the doctorate at Stanford University (Doctor of Philosophy, 1967).
Basso was professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of New Mexico and earlier taught at the University of Arizona and Yale University. He was the son of novelist Hamilton Basso. Basso died from cancer on August 4, 2013, at the age of 73, in Phoenix, Arizona.