Nisa

Shostak went to the Kalahari in hopes of finding one woman who could give her a personal account of what life as a !Kung woman is like. She interviewed a number of !Kung women, but had not found what she was looking for until she interviewed a middle-aged woman named Nisa. "I was struck by her gifts as a storyteller; she chose her words carefully, infused her stories with drama, and covered a wide range of experience." (Shostak, 7.) Shostak did fifteen interviews with Nisa, resulting in thirty hours of tape in the !Kung language.


It is probable that these early accounts are somewhat ...