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

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

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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 t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Shostak, Marjorie,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]
©1981
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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