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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Biographies Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Shostak, Marjorie, 1945- Nisa, the life and words of a!Kung woman. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2000 (OCoLC)45243436 |
Named Person: | Nisa. |
Material Type: | Biography, Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Marjorie Shostak; Nisa. |
ISBN: | 9780674043596 0674043596 |
OCLC Number: | 438187521 |
Description: | 1 online resource (365 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Introduction -- Earliest memories -- Family life -- Life in the bush -- Discovering sex -- Trial marriages -- Marriage -- Wives and co-wives -- First birth -- Motherhood and loss -- Change -- Women and men -- Taking lovers -- A healing ritual -- Further losses -- Growing older -- Epilogue -- Glossary. |
Responsibility: | Marjorie Shostak. |
More information: |
Abstract:
This classic paperback is available once again--and exclusively--from Harvard University Press. This book is the story of the life of Nisa, a member of the!Kung tribe of hunter-gatherers from southern Africa's Kalahari desert. Told in her own words--earthy, emotional, vivid--to Marjorie Shostak, a Harvard anthropologist who succeeded, with Nisa's collaboration, in breaking through the immense barriers of language and culture, the story is a fascinating view of a remarkable woman.
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