Earliest Memories -- Family Life -- Life in the Bush -- Discovering Sex -- Trial Marriages -- Marriage -- Wives and Co-Wives -- First Birth -- Motherhood and Loss -- Change -- Women and Men -- Taking Lovers -- A Healing Ritual -- Further Losses -- Growing Older
Summary
This book is the story of the life of Nisa, a member of the!Kung tribe of hunter-gatherers from southern Africa's Kalahari desert. 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. -- Publisher description
