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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

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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.

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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

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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Analogy (RC)

The whole passage describes Shostak’s approach, so it’s difficult to predict what part of her approach will be analogous in the correct answer. We know Shostak is focused on presenting Nisa’s life story. We also know that Shostak includes her own opinions and thoughts about women’s issues and her encounter with Nisa as part of her work.

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This is analogous to the way in which Shostak includes her own presentation of her encounter with Nisa as part of the biography. Just as the producer interacts on film with the subject, Shostak interacts with Nisa and this interaction is part of the book.

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The idea of being “ghostwritten” has no analogy to Shostak’s approach. Shostak didn’t use someone else to write the book about Nisa.

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Shostak’s purpose in describing Nisa’s life was not to show how the Kung live. It was to present Nisa’s story as a metaphor for women’s experience and to tell a story about Shostak’s encounter with Nisa. Merely presenting the way of life of the Kung is too simple an ambition for the way Shostak’s work is described.

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This involves only the writer’s own personal stories. But Shostak interviewed someone else and wrote about the other person’s life.

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Shostak didn’t present stories based on the experiences of many different people. She wrote about Nisa’s life and included her own interactions with Nisa as part of the bok.

PrepTest 137 - Section 1 - Passage 2 - Question 13

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