NisaThis 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. |
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Avis d'utilisateur - Hebephrene - LibraryThingThere 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 ... Consulter l'avis complet
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Avis d'utilisateur - bookwoman247 - LibraryThingMarjorie 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 ... Consulter l'avis complet
Table des matières
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Wives and CoWives | 151 |
First Birth | 159 |
Taking Lovers | 237 |
A Healing Ritual | 259 |
Further Losses | 273 |
Growing Older | 287 |
Epilogue | 309 |
Notes | 333 |
Glossary | 345 |
Acknowledgments | 353 |
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Page 1 - I got up, took a blanket and covered Tashay with it; he was still sleeping. Then I took another blanket and my smaller duiker skin covering and I left. Was I not the only one? The only other woman was Tashay's grandmother, and she was asleep in her hut.
Page 213 - In every known human society, the male's need for achievement can be recognized. Men may cook, or weave or dress dolls or hunt humming-birds but if such activities are the appropriate occupations of men, then the whole society, men and women alike, votes them as important. When the same occupations are performed by women, they are regarded as less important.
Page 240 - When two people are first together, their hearts are on fire and their passion is very great. After a while, the fire cools and that's how it stays.
Page 36 - I'm going to talk more about it until it does. Then, I'll go on to another. Then, my heart will be fine.
Page 36 - I'll break open the story and tell you what is there. Then, like the others that have fallen out onto the sand, I will finish with it, and the wind will take it away.
Page 20 - Among the women I interviewed, Nisa stood out. She had an exceptional ability to tell a story in a way that was generous, vibrant, and moving. Her sensitivity and skill made her stories larger and more important than the details they comprised.
Page 1 - s grandmother, and she was asleep in her hut. So, just as I was, I left. I walked a short distance from the village and sat down beside a tree. . . . After she was born, I sat there; I didn't know what to do. I had no sense. She lay there, moving her arms about, trying to suck her fingers. She started to cry. I just sat there, looking at her. I thought, "Is this my child? Who gave birth to this child?" Then I thought, "A big thing like that? How could it possibly have come out from my genitals?
Page 174 - Then the pains stopped. I said, "Why doesn't it hurry up and come out? Why doesn't it come out so I can rest? What does it want inside me that it just stays in there? Won't God help me to have it come out quickly?
Page 213 - In every known society, the males' need for achievement can be recognized." Shostak uses Mead, though, in order yet again to declare the !Kung an ethnographic "anomaly": "Here, in a society of ancient traditions, men and women live together in a nonexploitative manner, displaying a striking degree of equality between the sexes — perhaps a lesson for our own society.
Page 268 - N/um is powerful, but it is also very tricky. Sometimes it helps and sometimes it doesn't, because God doesn't always want a sick person to get better. Sometimes he tells a healer in trance, "Today I want this sick person. Tomorrow, too. But the next day, if you try to cure her, then I will help you. I will let you have her for a while." God watches the sick person, and the healer trances for her. Finally, God says, "All right, I only made her slightly sick. Now. she can get up.
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| Titre | Nisa An Earthscan paperback |
| Auteur | Marjorie Shostak |
| Édition | illustrée, réimprimée |
| Éditeur | Harvard University Press, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0674004329, 9780674004320 |
| Longueur | 365 pages |
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