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  • EDITION:
    1st Edition
  • ISBN:
    0674004329
  • ISBN-13:
    9780674004320
  • PUB. DATE:
    November 2000
  • PUBLISHER:
    Harvard University Press
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Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman / Edition 1 by Marjorie Shostak, Marjorie Shostak (Photographer)

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Nisa: The Life and Words of a Kung Womanby Anonymous

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The !Kung makes you appriciate everything in your life. It made me realize that I am so blessed to have everything; food on the table, music to listen to. !Kung is an interesting look at the life and culture of someone half way around the world; it made me open my eyes to the reality that some people are not as fortunate and some ideas are not the same.

Nisa: The Life and Words of a Kung Womanby Anonymous

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This book will help one appreciate what one has. I couldn't put the book down. This book was required for a cultural anthropology class, I am glad the professor chose this book, Nisa is neat. The life of the !Kung is one that I could never have imagined ever existed.

Nisa: The Life and Words of a Kung Womanby Anonymous

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Shostak wrote a great ethnography over the like of the Kung. It's along the lines of an autobgraphy from Nisa herself along with helpful insight from Shostak. I highly recommend people to read this.

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Nisa

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  • Pub. Date: November 2000
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Sales Rank: 136,201

Synopsis

It is the story of Nisa, a member of the !Kung hunter-gatherer people of southern Africa's Kalahari desert, told in her own words -- earthy, emotional, vivid -- to Marjorie Shostak, an American ethnographer. Together, these two women break through immense barriers of language and culture to give us a fascinating view of a remarkable life.

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Biography

Marjorie Shostak was a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at Emory University and an award-winning photographer.