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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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The author presents this quote as an example of how a real life doesn’t arrange itself into an easy shape. The quote doesn’t present an example of the values of Kung or people like them.

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The author presents this quote as an example of how a real life doesn’t arrange itself into an easy shape. (B) is the best match for this idea. “Amorphous” means without shape.

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The author presents this quote as an example of how a real life doesn’t arrange itself into an easy shape. The issue of a life that’s less than idyllic comes up in P2; it’s not connected to the point of the last paragraph.

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The author presents this quote as an example of how a real life doesn’t arrange itself into an easy shape. (D) is the opposite of this idea.

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The author presents this quote as an example of how a real life doesn’t arrange itself into an easy shape. The distinction between ethnographer and subject isn’t mentioned in connection with this quote.

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