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Author Shostak, Marjorie, 1945-1996.

Title Nisa, the life and words of a !Kung woman / Marjorie Shostak.

Publication Info. New York : Vintage Books, 1983.
©1981

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.089 S559N    Check Shelf
Edition First Vintage Books edition.
Description 402 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Contents Earliest memories -- Family life -- Life in the bush -- Discovering sex -- Trial marriages -- Wives and co-wives -- First birth -- Motherhood and loss -- Change -- Women and men -- Taking lovers -- A healing ritual -- Further losses -- Growing older.
Note Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1981.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Nisa.
!Kung (African people) -- Social life and customs.
!Kung (African people) -- Biography.
Social Conditions -- Africa, Southern -- Biography.
ISBN 0394711262 paperback
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