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Nisa, a member of the !Kung tribe of hunters-and-gatherers from southern Africa's Kalahari desert, now in her fifties, would be considered a remarkable woman in any culture: as a small child she saved her newborn brother from infanticide; first married at the age of twelve to a man she did not want, she was separated, divorced, remarried, widowed; she bore four children, none of whom survived; dependent on no one, she foraged for food in one of the world's most hostile environments. This book is the story of her life, as 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.

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English
Pages
402

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Subjects
!Kung (African people), Biography, Kung (African people), Social life and customs, Women, !Kung, Moeurs et coutumes, Biographies, Kung (volk), Vrouwen, Kung (Peuple d'Afrique), Social Conditions, Nisa, Africa, social conditions, Africa, social life and customs, !kung (african people)--social life and customs, !kung (african people), !kung (african people)--biography, Dt2499.n57 s56 1990
People
Nisa
Places
Southern Africa

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1981.

Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306/.08996106811, B
Library of Congress
DT797.N57 S53 1983

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Pagination
402 p. :
Number of pages
402

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Open Library
OL3485313M
Internet Archive
nisalifewordsofk00shos
ISBN 10
0394711262
LCCN
82004837
Library Thing
252
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1975994

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