Self-study
P1
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Topic and significance ·
Shostak's "Nisa," an ethnography (cultural study) built on three narratives
Challenges the typical approach to ethnography, which is general and anonymous. Inference: "Nisa" is specific and personal.
First narrative ·
Shostak's autobiography
Ethnographic account of living with the !Kung people
Second narrative ·
Nisa's story and woman's experience
Unclear who Nisa is, but given context, likely a !Kung woman whom Shostak chose to focus on
Third narrative ·
Cross-cultural
Somehow blurs the line between ethnographer (Shostak) and subject (Nisa). Unclear what this means yet, but likely means Shostak does not play the traditional researcher's role of the impartial, objective observer.
P2
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Western perspective ·
on the !Kung people
General Western attitude is to idealize !Kung society
Nisa's perspective ·
on realities of !Kung life
High mortality rates, childhood conflicts
P3
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Author's perspective ·
on broader significance of "Nisa"
Explores women's views about women, which is rare in ethnography
P4
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Explain third narrative strand ·
"Nisa" blends voices of Nisa and Shostak
Shostak gives narrative shape to Nisa's experiences, and so plays a part in Nisa's story
Passage Style
Single position
Spotlight
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The received attitude concerns our inclination to consider people in simple societies happy.
b
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The received attitude concerns our inclination to consider people in simple societies happy. Although the author does suggest that considering the Kung as happy makes Western observers happy, the idea that considering the Kung makes Western observers happy isn’t the received attitude. The received attitude is “simple societies are happy,” not “considering simple societies happy makes us happy.”
c
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This is the closest to the idea that we think people in simple societies are happy. Westerners are under the
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The received attitude concerns our inclination to consider people in simple societies happy. (D) is a fact that undermines this received attitude.
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The received attitude concerns our inclination to consider people in simple societies happy. The received attitude doesn’t involve the similarity of the lives of seminomadic women to the lives of other women.