Nisa, the life and words of a !Kung woman

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Nisa, the life and words of a !Kung woman

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Nisa, a member of the !Kung tribe of hunters-and-gatherers from southern Africa's Kalahari desert, now in her fifties, would be considered a remarkable woman in any culture: as a small child she saved her newborn brother from infanticide; first married at the age of twelve to a man she did not want, she was separated, divorced, remarried, widowed; she bore four children, none of whom survived; dependent on no one, she foraged for food in one of the world's most hostile environments. This book is the story of her life, as 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.

Publisher
Vintage Books
Pages
402

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Nisa, the life and words of a !Kung woman
1990, Earthscan Publications
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1983, Vintage Books
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Nisa, the life and words of a !Kung woman
1981, Harvard University Press
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Edition Notes

Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1981.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306/.08996106811 , B
Library of Congress
DT797.N57 S53 1983, DT797.N57 S53 1983

The Physical Object

Pagination
402 p. :
Number of pages
402

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18371714M
ISBN 10
0394711262
LCCN
82004837
Library Thing
252
Goodreads
1975994

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