Book_Report_On_Nisa,_The_Life_And_Words_Of_A_Kung_Woman

Book Report On Nisa, The Life And Words Of A Kung Woman The author, Marjorie Shostak, provides at the beginning of each chapter in her book a short introduction of the subject matter which precedes text in the actual chapters recounting Nisa’s life. This work covers Nisa’s life as she remembers and also provides some insights that the author has outside of the interviews with Nisa. These perspectives are given from the viewpoint of having lived and been with the !Kung women. Numerous aspects of the Kung women’s way of life is revealed, beginning with Nisa as a little girl, “I remember when my mother was pregnant with Kumsa. I was still small and I asked, “Mommy, that baby inside you…”(Shostak, 1981, P. 51) and proceeded on to her marriages, “I had refused Bo, but Tsaa, my next husband, I liked. When I married him, my breasts were just beginning to develop” (Shostak, 1981, P. 138) and further on to when she gave birth and when “After (her) children died, (she) just continued to live.” (Shostak, 1981, P. 326). But there appears to be a particular emphasis on Nisa’s sexual trysts with men from chapter 4 onwards, “There are men, a few of my lovers, who still live in life, kung, nisa, men, shostak, mainly, book, 1981, probably, nisa’s, just, interviews, beginning, author, women, way, viewpoint, text, subject, provides, particular, out, lovers, live, little, introduction, husband, going, given, found, fact, even, due, different, details