Nisa : : The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman / / Marjorie Shostak.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Shostak, Marjorie,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]; ©1981
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1 Earliest Memories --; 2 Family Life --; 3 Life in the Bush --; 4 Discovering Sex --; 5 Trial Marriages --; 6 Marriage --; 7 Wives and Co-Wives --; 8 First Birth --; 9 Motherhood and Loss --; 10 Change --; 11 Women and Men --; 12 Taking Lovers --; 13 A Healing Ritual --; 14 Further Losses --; 15 Growing Older --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Glossary --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674043596; 9783110442212
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674043596
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Marjorie Shostak.

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.