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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 doesn’t indicate that Shostak observes the culture of the Kung to infer cultural characteristics of other groups.

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The author doesn’t indicate that Shostak studied Nisa apart from the cultural practices of the Kung.

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The author doesn’t indicate that this aspect of Shostak’s work differs from the approach of other ethnographers. Although ethnographer’s focus on the general and the anonymous, this doesn’t imply that they don’t contrast individuals’ personal histories with information about the individuals’ culture.

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The author tells us that Shostak’s work “challenges the ethnographer’s penchant for the general and the anonymous.” So her work is different in that it includes more emphasis on the individual.

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