TY - BOOK AU - Marjorie Shostak AU - Marjorie Shostak. TI - Nisa, the life and words of a!Kung woman T2 - An Earthscan paperback SN - 9781853830600 U1 - 306.08996 SHO PY - 1990/// CY - London PB - : Earthscan Publications KW - Social Sciences KW - Culture & institutions N1 - 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 * Epilogue * N2 - 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 ER -