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Title: Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman by Marjorie Shostak ISBN: 0-674-00432-9 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.28 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
Comment: A read for everyone, especially for mothers, lovers and laid back women...Nisa is an exceptional woman. As for Majorie... she tells and writes Nisa's life story so well. I am buying more of this book as gifts for my friends: male and female.
Rating: 4
Summary: The only assigned book I ever finished before a class.
Comment: You don't have to be an anthropology student to find this book approachable. With Nisa's straight-forward monologues about her life, you could probably finish this book in a day, curled up on a blanket under a tree. That's how I plan to read the sequel.
This book is full of gossip and stories, basically bridging gaps between that of Nisa's world and my own. She's an outsider's insider: just weird enough to be out on the fringes of the !Kung and thus accessible to Shostak. But that becomes a problem later on the book -- Nisa's peers have warned the author that Nisa lies, but it's not until Nisa tells a rather impressive story about herself that Shostak begins to dismiss her as unreliable.
Which makes me think that the only reason Shostak published the book is that she'd spent too much time on Nisa not to. And that's why I'm not giving Shostak's work a full five stars -- I liked Nisa a heck of a lot more than I liked Shostak based on this work.
Is Nisa a liar? Or is the problem that she tells truths that others don't want to face? Whatever your opinion, I think you'll find this book a good read whether or not you have an anthropological background. I still have a copy. :)
Rating: 5
Summary: James Vasillios Constantine
Comment: great book, havent read it, but i feel it is a great account of an indian woman trying to please her peeps. Mad love to you all. Mom dad, aundrea catherine, and alex, I love you all and I hope you like this book. Our culture!
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Title: Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence by Richard Wrangham, Dale Peterson ISBN: 0395877431 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 14 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India by Serena Nanda ISBN: 0534509037 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company Pub. Date: 30 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea ISBN: 0385014856 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 June, 1969 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Return to Nisa by Marjorie Shostak ISBN: 0674008294 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Five Windows into Africa: A CD-Rom by Patrick McNaughton ISBN: 0253337593 Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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