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

This classic paperback is available once again--and exclusively--from Harvard University Press. 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shostak, Marjorie, 1945-1996
Otros Autores: Nisa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2000.
Edición:First Harvard University Press paperback edition.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Earliest memories
  • Family life
  • Life in the bush
  • Discovering sex
  • Trial marriages
  • Marriage
  • Wives and co-wives
  • First birth
  • Motherhood and loss
  • Change
  • Women and men
  • Taking lovers
  • A healing ritual
  • Further losses
  • Growing older
  • Epilogue
  • Glossary.