[align=justify][box_out][box_in] Taking the explication of experience as its object as well as its method, Marjorie Shostak’s Nisa The Life and Words of a !KungWoman weaves together three narrative strands, and in doing so challenges the ethnographer’s penchant for the general and the anonymous. The first strand, the autobiographical details of a 50-year-old woman’s life among the seminomadic !Kung hunter-gatherers of Botswana, adds to the ethnographical literature on the !Kung. The second presents Nisa’s
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