Nisa kung. Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman by Marjorie Shostak 2019-01-12
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The ǃKung also face problems since their traditional lands are sought after by cattle ranchers, people of European descent, , and state governments. She brings back some very provacative findings, such as a much more sexually egalitarian sensibility than our own. Upon returning from a successful hunt, if the kill is transportable, it will be brought back to the village. Chapter 13 deals with the! This is a bit rambly, but the upshot is that this was an interesting read, which really shed light on how to understand more general anthropological writings. When Nisa was stopped, she had told the person what her mother was going to do, and they both ran back to her mother and had stopped her from burying her son.
Marjorie Shostak: the Life and Words of Nisa a Kung Women
Soon after, her mother dies, and Nisa herself falls ill but is cured by her elder brother, Dau, who is a healer. The rest of the book consists of Marjorie's ethnographic observations of the! If there is a choice of file format, which format is better to download? She also meets with Nisa and interviews her again. Or segments of Nisa, some Lee articles, and the films. 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. ǃKung woman and child sharing a meal. As the o receivers of gifts, the women are in charge of caring for the items as well as maintaining them. The simple life of the! It was fascinating both as an ethnography and as a personal story.
One way or another, either directly or indirectly, everyone will be given a part of the animal Shostak 1981. But it can be a tedious read at times and I am glad I am done with it. I felt terrible knowing that none of Nisa's children lived, but it seemed like she found some peace toward the end of her life. This book had first started out by introducing the readers to what this book is going to sound like, which was the Introduction. Nisa then discusses her marriage to a Tswana man named Besa, as well as the complications of her several love affairs with other men. Kung belief in the spirit world and, in particular, with the role spirits are thought to play in illness and healing. The thing that sticks with me was how annoying Nisa was.
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman by Marjorie Shostak :: Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
Kung's people life and beliefs. I think it would make a great introduction to anthropology, and wish I had multiple copies to give to anthropologically unenlightened friends. Although the stories are exaggerated by Nisa, a lot of women can relate to her life even with the geographic distance between them or if the society is completely different. Then, like the others that have fallen out onto the sand, I will finish with it, and the wind will take it away. So some of the details are probably best taken with a grain of salt, although which details and how much salt is impossible for the casual reader to know.
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman by Marjorie Shostak :: Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
The couple stay respectfully apart from each other and do not join the wedding festivities. If the male, when going out hunting and he catches a large animal, it is considered to be wrong to brag about the size of the animal. The simple life of the! We do not store files, because it is prohibited. Also the importance of female collaboration in daily living, which we see unraveling in Western culture. By writing this way, Shostak crafted a generalization of! Note the similarities or differences. Marriage is a sacred thing that starts when the females are very young. The wedding ceremony sounds beautiful, though I don't really think marrying off child brides is a good thing.
Kung life from a personal rather than social or ecological perspective. Newlyweds live in the same village as the wife's family so she has family support during her new life. Nisa begins working in the house of a European woman who lives near their village. The only time that the is being separated from the mother is when there is a ceremony being held for the boy around the ages of fifteen and twenty. Kung life, mostly of women.
The woman, Nisa, is what the book is about. Use this argument to account for the position of women in! What does this price mean? Most of the When anyone tried to pick on me she would help me and it also helped to the fact that she was popular and all the boys wanted her and what she said was taken as gospel. I read this in college for an anthropology class. Told in her own words--earthy, emotional, vivid--to Marjorie Shostak, a Harvard anthropologist who succeeded, with Nisa's collaboration, in breakin This classic paperback is available once again--and exclusively--from Harvard University Press. Interviews instead of observations, very interesting stuff for me. The concept of interdependence makes perfect sense within the! She outlives her children and goes through several husbands while also juggling a seemingly endless supply of lovers. This book was really interesting and an easy read.
You learn that for the! Shostak's chapters open with context and then Nisa's story spellbinds us. Kung are an egalitarian society, meaning everyone has access to the valued resources. One aspect to look at is the sexuality of these women. They really are quite sophisticated. Kung life that meshes beautifully with Nisa's personal experiences that sometimes match the generalization but more often than not depart from it, providing readers with a Nisa is as enigmatic and charming as suggests; each chapter features an anthropological view of the! And there's that issue of the narrator's voice.
Issues such as trying to find and create an identity, to coping with marriage and the responsibility that it brings, to giving birth and raising children ,we see that! Relations between divorced individuals are usually quite amicable, with former partners living near one another and maintaining a cordial relationship. In conclusion, shostak acquired a lot of knowledge from her stay with the! This book is incredibly interesting. Kung tribe are very focused on their children. Instead, they hunt, eat, dance, sing make love, and wander from place to place as food or family beckon them. In Chapter 2, Nisa recalls growing up with her brother, playing with him, experiencing sibling hatred, and protecting him from harm. It's usually a taboo topic. Kung are hunter-gatherers of Southern Africa and the women play an essential role in the production of subsistence for their families.
