Nisa

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Married at twelve, then separated, divorced and widowed, Nisa is the mother of four children, none of whom survived. She is strong, capable of foraging on her own in one of the world's most hostile environments, not dependent on any man for her daily sustenance and ready to talk to anyone as her equal. Wise, full of humour at the absurdities of life and courageous in the face of its defeats, she is bawdy, practical and incurably romantic. She is a woman of the !Khung people who live by means of humanity's oldest survival strategy - gathering and hunting. This book is the remarkable story of Nisa's life, told in her own words to Marjorie Shostak. It is a story full of echoes from a female past that we can never know directly. But it is also Nisa's unique story, her own voice, her own dignity. In anyone's culture, she is a remarkable woman.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Marjorie Shostak
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2014-01-21
File : 413 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781134157662


Return To Nisa

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The story of two women--one a hunter-gatherer in Botswana, the other an ailing American anthropologist--this powerful book returns the reader to territory that Marjorie Shostak wrote of so poignantly in the now classic Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman. Here, however, the ground has perceptibly shifted. First published in 1981, Nisa served as a stirring introduction to anthropology's most basic question: Can there be true understanding between people of profoundly different cultures? Diagnosed with breast cancer, and troubled by a sense of work yet unfinished, Shostak returned to Botswana in 1989. This book tells simply and directly of her rediscovery of the !Kung people she had come to know years before--the aging, blunt, demanding Nisa, her stalwart husband Bo, understanding Kxoma, fragile Hwantla, and Royal, translator and guide. In Shostak's words, we clearly see !Kung life, the dry grasslands, the healing dances, the threatening military presence. And we see Shostak herself, passionately curious, reporting the discomforts and confusion of fieldwork along with its fascination. By turns amused and frustrated, she describes the disappointments--and chastening lessons--that inevitably follow when anthropologists (like her younger self) romanticize the !Kung. Throughout, we observe a woman of threatened health but enormous vitality as she pursues the promise she once discovered in the !Kung people and, above all, in Nisa. At the core of the book is the remarkable relationship between these two women from different worlds. They are often caught off guard by the limits of their mutual understanding. Still, their determination to reach out to each other lingers in the reader's mind long after the story ends--providing an eloquent response to questions that Nisa so memorably posed. It was not that we had become the best of friends or like close family. It was simply that she and I had the most straightforward connection I had ever had with anyone, before or since. It was as if the !Kung culture and my talks with Nisa touched something beyond reason in me. Even though I didn't necessarily like everything Nisa said, nor everything about her, my heart had been captured. But how often I wished Nisa had been more noble, more selfless, and more philosophical. Nisa had to be known well to be appreciated, for she was complex and difficult. She probably would say much the same about me. We both wanted things from each other, and neither of us got as much as we hoped for. That we both got some of what we wanted--well, that made our friendship extremely valuable. --from the Epilogue

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Marjorie Shostak
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Release : 2009-06-01
File : 261 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780674043589


Bras Es Da Sala De Sintra

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Genre : Heraldry
Author : Anselmo Braamcamp Freire
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Release : 1927
File : 574 Pages
ISBN-13 : WISC:89119117596


Nisa The Life And Words Of A Kung Woman

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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. -- Publisher description.

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Genre : !Kung (African people)
Author : Marjorie Shostak
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Release : 1981
File : 424 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015000336506


Parthian Economic Documents From Nisa

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Genre : Inscriptions
Author : Igorʹ Mikhaĭlovich Dʹi͡akonov
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Release : 1976
File : 228 Pages
ISBN-13 : IND:30000120784958


The Indian Law Reports

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Genre : Law reports, digests, etc
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Release : 1880
File : 994 Pages
ISBN-13 : CORNELL:31924087610964


O Almirante Marqu S De Nisa

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Genre : Portugal
Author : António Marques Esparteiro
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Release : 1944
File : 174 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCAL:B4506527


El Contra Eunomium I En La Producci N Literaria De Gregorio De Nisa

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Genre : Religion
Author : Lucas F. Mateo Seco
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Release : 1988
File : 490 Pages
ISBN-13 : UVA:X001682706


The Language Mythology And Geographical Nomenclature Of Japan Viewed In The Light Of Aino Studies

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Genre : Ainu
Author : Basil Hall Chamberlain
Publisher :
Release : 1887
File : 198 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:32044043094861


The Dramatic Works Of John Lilly The Euphuist Mydas Mother Bombie The Woman In The Moone Love S Metamorphosis Notes

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Genre :
Author : John Lyly
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Release : 1892
File : 302 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:32044023822927