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Auteur

Marjorie Shostak was a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at Emory University and an award-winning photographer.

Texte du rabat

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

Résumé
The story of two womenâa hunter-gatherer in Botswana and an American anthropologistâthis book returns the reader to territory that Shostak wrote of in Nisa. Diagnosed with cancer and troubled by a sense of unfinished work, Shostak returned to Botswana in 1989. This book tells of her rediscovery of the !Kung people she had come to know years before.

Contenu

Africa! Voices in Dobe Spirit Travel Nisa Is Inside Gifts and Payments Into the Bush Lions in the Night Village Reflections Nisa Remembers Deep Trances Past and Present Soldiers and Spies Nisa the Healer Last Goodbyes Epilogue Acknowledgments Index