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Nisa : The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman / Marjorie Shostak.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1981Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674043596
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 968/.004/961 22
LOC classification:
  • DT797.N57 S53 2000eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
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
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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674043596

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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Apr 2021)