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Nisa, the life and words of a !Kung woman / Marjorie Shostak.

by Shostak, Marjorie, 1945-1996.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2000.

Women, !Kung -- Biography.

Women, !Kung -- Social life and customs.

!Kung (African people) -- Social life and customs.

!Kung (African people) -- Biography.

0674004329 (paperback)

9780674004320 (paperback)

365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

First Harvard University Press paperback edition.

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.

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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