Through a series of interviews that span several decades, this title follows a Kung woman named Nisa through childhood, puberty, sexual awakening, marriage, and motherhood, as she learns much about life in Africa's Kalahari Desert.
Through a series of interviews that span several decades, this title follows a Kung woman named Nisa through childhood, puberty, sexual awakening, marriage, and motherhood, as she learns much about life in Africa's Kalahari Desert.
In a startling new book a team of distinguished physicians and anthropologists tell how the diet and activity patterns of our prehistoric ancestors can be adopted today to achieve far greater physical and mental health, vitality and longevity.
RETURN TO NISA, the sequel to Marjorie Shostak's classic 1981 study NISA: THE LIFE AND WORDS OF A !KUNG WOMAN, revisits the !Kung tribe eight years later. Recovering from a mastectomy following breast cancer, Shostak writes about her need to revisit Nisa and the !Kung, her perceptions about their gradual relinquishment of a traditional hunter ...
An account of the life of a woman from the Kalahari desert, told in her own words to the author, Marjorie Shostak. Nisa was married at twelve and later separated, divorced and widowed and 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 ...
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