Abstract
We explicate a Western Apache oratorial idiom, reflected upon as bá’hadziih, ‘speak for them’ as a complex intersubjective strategy for the negotiation of varying figurations of otherness. Bá’hadziih operates, we will argue, by limiting the otherness of an opposed family or clan by means of appeals to a temporalizing sociality. By way of establishing the ethnographic context of bá’hadziih we will also show how its action entails and is loosely entailed by different ways of speaking associated with bígońłzih, or ‘knowing’ and the moral boundaries of families. We will conclude that bá’hadziih deploys and obviates otherness by recasting it within what we define as an emergent, subjunctive sociality.
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