PT137.S1.P2.Q11

PrepTest 137 - Section 1 - Passage 2 - Question 11

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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.
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First narrative · Shostak's autobiography
Ethnographic account of living with the !Kung people
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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
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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
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Nisa's perspective · on realities of !Kung life
High mortality rates, childhood conflicts
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Author's perspective · on broader significance of "Nisa"
Explores women's views about women, which is rare in ethnography
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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
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11.

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a

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What matters is not how Western women feel about Nisa. What matters is whether Nisa’s experiences are similar to those of other women in other societies. How Western women feel about Nisa’s experiences doesn’t reveal anything unless those feelings are evidence that Western women faced similar experiences.

11%
b

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This doesn’t suggest that what Nisa experienced is experienced by women generally.

2%
c

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This doesn’t suggest that what Nisa experienced is experienced by women generally.

2%
d

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This provides evidence that Nisa’s experiences are not unique to Kung culture. This helps connect Nisa’s experiences to women more generally.

75%
e

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This doesn’t help show that Nisa’s experiences are similar to those of women generally. (E) helps show that Kung women’s lives are similar, but this doesn’t help us go from Nisa and the Kung to women more generally.

9%

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