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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shostak, Marjorie, 1945-1996.

Contributor:

Nisa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nisa.

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

!Kung (African people).

!Kung (African people)--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Edition:

1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9780674043596

0674043596

OCLC:

438187521