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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shostak, Marjorie, 1945-1996
Other Authors: Nisa
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2000.
Edition:First Harvard University Press paperback edition.
Subjects:
Nisa.
!Kung (African people) > Social life and customs.
!Kung (African people) > Biography.
HISTORY > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
!Kung (African people)
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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