Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (Paperback)

from Hebephrene

There should be a movie in this. A comedy actually since the story of an eager ambitious anthropologist who needs to publish to succeed realizes that the best (or only ) person for their study is s...

from DarkWater

This prototypical ethnography centered around the monologues of Nisa, a !Kung woman of the Kalahari, both takes us back to our days as a hunter-gatherer culture and embodies the spirit of anthropol...

from bookwoman247

Marjorie Shostak was an anthropologist studying the women of the !Kung hunter-gatherers on the edge of the Kalahari in the 1960's and 1970's. This book is the result of her interviews with one of t...

from Nikkles

Nisa is an interesting ethnography since it is only about one womans life. The writing is very good and I imagine non-anthropologists would really enjoy it as well. If you want to know everything a...

from Wanderlust_Lost

Shostak's fascinating survey of the life and culture of a !Kung bush woman is unputdownable. Don't be fooled by it's anthropological exterior this book reads almost like a novel with alternating ch...