Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung WomanHarvard University Press, 14 nov 2000 - 365 páginas This classic paperback is available once again—and exclusively—from Harvard University Press.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. |
Índice
Earliest Memories | 41 |
Family Life | 59 |
Life in the Bush | 73 |
Discovering Sex | 95 |
Trial Marriages | 115 |
Marriage | 133 |
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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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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?