Nisa: The Life and Words of a!Kong Woman By Marjorie Shostak This book from is made up of interviews that the author had with a African tribal woman who was of people who were still involved with lives of hunter-gathering. I read it because I was curious about what life was like before agriculture, before work, and everything that came with all that more recent development of humankind/5. Nisa: The Life and Words of a!Kung Woman is a memoir by Nisa and Marjorie Shosta that was first published in Cited by: Nisa: The Life and Words of a!Kung Woman. Marjorie Shostak is the author and narrator of Nisa as well as Nisa’s interviewer, but with an academic background in English literature, she is not your average anthropologist. She travels to Africa with her husband, who is conducting his own work in the Dobe region, and begins studying the!Kung as a means of occupying her time while she is there.
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. Despite a lack of formal training as an anthropologist, Marjorie Shostak wrote one of the most popular life histories in the field, Nisa: The Life and Words of a!Kung Woman, in A recounting of interviews between Shostak and a woman she met in the Kalahari desert, Nisa has become a touchstone for feminist anthropological studies. The book "Nisa: the life and words of a!Kung woman" by Marjorie Shostak is a story-telling about Nisa, her life, and the life of other African people in their separate world. The main contribution of the book is that it tells us about the style of life of African people, about their rituals and traditions by the very participant of that.
Nisa: The Life and Words of a!Kong Woman By Marjorie Shostak This book from is made up of interviews that the author had with a African tribal woman who was of people who were still involved with lives of hunter-gathering. I read it because I was curious about what life was like before agriculture, before work, and everything that came with all that more recent development of humankind. These transcribed interviews, along with Shostak’s own analyses and observations, constitute the bulk of Nisa: The Life and Words of a!Kung Woman (). Several years after publishing this book, Shostak was diagnosed with breast cancer. Nisa: The Life and Words of a!Kung Woman is a memoir by Nisa and Marjorie Shosta that was first published in
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