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Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman

 Marjorie Shostak
 

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1. Was my childhood a happy one? By the time I had grown and was a young girl, I knew that my heart was usually happy. But when I was a small child, I wasn't aware enough of things to be able to think about whether I was happy or sad.
 
 
2. I am an old woman and know about things, because whenever I hear people talking, I listen.
 
 
3. Here, in a society of ancient traditions, men and women live together in a nonexploitative manner, displaying a striking degree of equality between the sexes—perhaps a lesson for our own society.
 
 
4. Zhun/twa men say that women are the chiefs, the rich ones, the wise ones. Because women possess something very important, something that enables men to live: their genitals.
 
 
5. That's something that you, a woman, know about as well.
 
 
 
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