Return to Nisa

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"The story of two women - one a hunter-gatherer in Botswana, the other an ailing American anthropologist - this 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 introduction to anthropology's most basic question: Can there be true understanding between people of profoundly different cultures?"--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Women, !Kung,  Social life and customs,  Nisa,  Biography,  Biography: general,  Social & cultural anthropology,  Women,  Cultural And Social Anthropology,  Central Africa - History,  Social Science,  Biography / Autobiography,  Biography/Autobiography,  Botswana,  Ethnic Cultures - General,  Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural,  Women's Studies - General,  Africa - General,  Anthropology - Cultural,  Women's studies,  Friendship in literature,  Interpersonal relations