"Nisa: Life and Words of a !Kung Woman"

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This paper examines "Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman", by Marjorie Shostak which is about an African people called the !Kung, or !Kung San, or Bushmen. They live in the Kalahari desert in southwestern Africa and the !Kung are hunter gatherers, also called foragers. It explains how this cross cultural comparison examines all we have in common with this way of life that is fading fast.

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"As a result of ignorance, most people living in the U.S. believe that our way of life is the only way of life. Consequentially, the different cultures of different societies are not truly appreciated for their complexity and beauty. An ethnography - an in-depth description of a culture based on firsthand experience - can change all that. Anyone who reads Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman, by Marjorie Shostak, an ethnography on the !Kung people, is bound to value this culture which is completely different from our own. They will also discover that although the culture is very foreign, many aspects of everyday human life resemble our own."

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