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Nisa

The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman

By: Marjorie Shostak

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Nisa

The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman

By: Marjorie Shostak

Married at twelve, then separated, divorced and widowed, Nisa is 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 on any man for her daily sustenance and ready to talk to anyone as her equal. Wise, full of humour at the absurdities of life and courageous in the face of its defeats, she is bawdy, practical and incurably romantic. She is a woman of the !Khung people who live by means of humanity's oldest survival strategy - gathering and hunting. This book is the remarkable story of Nisa's life, told in her own words to Marjorie Shostak. It is a story full of echoes from a female past that we can never know directly. But it is also Nisa's unique story, her own voice, her own dignity. In anyone's culture, she is a remarkable woman.

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Routledge

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1134157665

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9781134157662

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By: Marjorie Shostak

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By: Marjorie Shostak

The story of two women--one a hunter-gatherer in Botswana, the other an ailing American anthropologist--this powerful book returns the reader to territory that Marjorie Shostak wrote of so poignantly in the now classic Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman. Here, however, the ground has perceptibly shifted. First published in 1981, Nisa served as a stirring introduction to anthropology's most basic question: Can there be true understanding between people of profoundly different cultures? Diagnosed with breast cancer, and troubled by a sense of work yet unfinished, Shostak returned to Botswana in 1989. This book tells simply and directly of her rediscovery of the !Kung people she had come to know years before--the aging, blunt, demanding Nisa, her stalwart husband Bo, understanding Kxoma, fragile Hwantla, and Royal, translator and guide. In Shostak's words, we clearly see !Kung life, the dry grasslands, the healing dances, the threatening military presence. And we see Shostak herself, passionately curious, reporting the discomforts and confusion of fieldwork along with its fascination. By turns amused and frustrated, she describes the disappointments--and chastening lessons--that inevitably follow when anthropologists (like her younger self) romanticize the !Kung. Throughout, we observe a woman of threatened health but enormous vitality as she pursues the promise she once discovered in the !Kung people and, above all, in Nisa. At the core of the book is the remarkable relationship between these two women from different worlds. They are often caught off guard by the limits of their mutual understanding. Still, their determination to reach out to each other lingers in the reader's mind long after the story ends--providing an eloquent response to questions that Nisa so memorably posed. It was not that we had become the best of friends or like close family. It was simply that she and I had the most straightforward connection I had ever had with anyone, before or since. It was as if the !Kung culture and my talks with Nisa touched something beyond reason in me. Even though I didn't necessarily like everything Nisa said, nor everything about her, my heart had been captured. But how often I wished Nisa had been more noble, more selfless, and more philosophical. Nisa had to be known well to be appreciated, for she was complex and difficult. She probably would say much the same about me. We both wanted things from each other, and neither of us got as much as we hoped for. That we both got some of what we wanted--well, that made our friendship extremely valuable. --from the Epilogue

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Harvard University Press

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0674043588

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9780674043589

Nisa

The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman

By: Marjorie Shostak

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The Story of "Me"

Contemporary American Autofiction

By: Marjorie Worthington

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The Story of "Me"

Contemporary American Autofiction

By: Marjorie Worthington

Autofiction, or works in which the eponymous author appears as a fictionalized character, represents a significant trend in postwar American literature, when it proliferated to become a kind of postmodern cliché. The Story of “Me” charts the history and development of this genre, analyzing its narratological effects and discussing its cultural implications. By tracing autofiction’s conceptual issues through case studies and an array of texts, Marjorie Worthington sheds light on a number of issues for postwar American writing: the maleness of the postmodern canon—and anxieties created by the supposed waning of male privilege—the relationship between celebrity and authorship, the influence of theory, the angst stemming from claims of the “death of the author,” and the rise of memoir culture. Worthington constructs and contextualizes a bridge between the French literary context, from which the term originated, and the rise of autofiction among various American literary movements, from modernism to New Criticism to New Journalism. The Story of “Me” demonstrates that the burgeoning of autofiction serves as a barometer of American literature, from modernist authorial effacement to postmodern literary self-consciousness.

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University of Nebraska Press

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1496207572

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9781496207579

The Paleolithic Prescription

A Program of Diet and Exercise and a Design for Living

By: S. Boyd Eaton,Marjorie Shostak,Melvin Konner

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The Paleolithic Prescription

A Program of Diet and Exercise and a Design for Living

By: S. Boyd Eaton,Marjorie Shostak,Melvin Konner

A physician-anthropologist team tells how adopting the diet and activity patterns of our prehistoric ancestors can greatly improve health.

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HarperCollins

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0060916354

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9780060916350

Inspirational Writings of Marjorie Holmes

By: Marjorie Holmes

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Inspirational Writings of Marjorie Holmes

By: Marjorie Holmes

This collection includes Love and Laughter, Lord, Let Me Love, and To Help You Through the Hurting. Here in one collection for the first time are three bestselling works from one of America's favorite inspirational writers. Deluxe gold-stamped leatherette binding with gold edges and color-coordinated endpapers.

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Arrowood Press

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088486037X

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9780884860372

The Journey Recalled

A Memoir of Marjorie Frances Hill

By: Marjorie Hill,Thel Spencer

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The Journey Recalled

A Memoir of Marjorie Frances Hill

By: Marjorie Hill,Thel Spencer

The artist recalls her life in Omaha, NE, scholarship to Kansas City Art Institute, and working as a Hallmark girl before World War II. Illustrations of forty of Hill's watercolor paintings are included.

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0971314101

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9780971314108

You and I and Yesterday

By: Marjorie Holmes

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You and I and Yesterday

By: Marjorie Holmes

The author fondly recalls the joys and simplicity of her childhood days spent in the small Iowa town of Storm Lake during the twenties

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Doubleday Books

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0385237316

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9780385237314

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Return to Nisa

Nisa

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The Story of "Me"

The Story of "Me"

The Paleolithic Prescription

The Paleolithic Prescription

Inspirational Writings of Marjorie Holmes

Inspirational Writings of Marjorie Holmes

The Journey Recalled

The Journey Recalled

You and I and Yesterday

You and I and Yesterday

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