Nisa, the Life and Words of a !Kung Woman - Softcover

Shostak, Marjorie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394711262 ISBN 13: 9780394711263

Publisher: Random House USA Inc, 1982

Synopsis

As told to anthropologist Marjorie Shostak, this life history of a woman of a hunting-gathering people of South Africa's Kalahari Desert reveals a person of wisdom, humor, courage, practicality, romantic yearnings, sorrow, and dignity

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Review:

Both Nisa and Shostak are unusual people, and their collaboration has resulted in an unparalleled account of !Kung life from a personal rather than social or ecological perspective. Even more important, their work results in a revelation of the universality of women's experiences and feelings despite vast differences in culture and society. Nisa helps us know what it means to be !Kung, to be a woman, and finally, to be human. We have a remarkable anthropologist to thank for an absorbing account. results in a revelation of the universality of women's experiences and feelings despite vast differences in culture and society. Nisa helps us know what it means to be !Kung, to be a woman, and finally, to be human.

About the Author:

Marjorie Shostak is an anthropoligist who lived for two years with the !Khung in the Kalahari desert.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0394711262
• ISBN 13: 9780394711263
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 402