NISA AND ALL OUR KIN

Nisa and All Our Kin

Nisa

The book, Nisa written by the famed author Marjorie Shostak; the book is overall based on the cultural shock as well as is tremendously touching book regarding a woman who went all the way through lots of fights back and dreadful tragedies all her life. The main focus of the book also highlights the viewpoint of the majority of the society women. Other than this there are loads of striking problems faced by women mentioned in the book based on the people who belong to the tribe of Kung.

Anthropologist Marjorie Shostak studies every point of the tribe of for more than 2 years. The writer spent 2 or even years discussing and interrogating the issues of the women who belong to the society of Kung tribe. As per the Kung ethnic group inhabit the area of Dobe that is the Northwest of Botswana, that inculcate with, a sequence of attach, symbolizes on the paper by expletive positions as well as slashes. Marjorie Shostak studied that the Kung tribe people relied mainly on mongongo nuts that relate to a native tree which is one of the main part of the diet.

Anthropologist Marjorie Shostak, from all the women that were a part of the tribe, she made intimate associations with those all the women that are in their fifties, she emphasized on a woman with the name of Nisa. The book revolves around a woman with the name of Nisa. The whole book revolves in Nisa's viewpoint relating to her experiences of life throughout her growing up in the Kung tribe along with the type of tribe she belongs with. With the help, of Nisa's willingness to relate her experiences as well as speak about the things she dwelt with during the interview encompassing her childhood. It was with the help of Nisa's story that gave Shostak as well as the book a solid foundation on which the writer wrote the book. The book clearly explains about all the tragedies that filled Nisa's life. Nisa went through various situations out of which the worst was when Nisa lost her two infants children as well as two adult children. Another tragedy she faced was that she lost her husband right after when she gave birth to one of their child. As per the book by Shostak, “None of the women had experiences as much tragedy as Nisa (Marjorie, pp: 1-400).

The author while she was interviewing Nisa mentions that, in the starting of the book, Nisa appeared as if she was exaggerating in most parts of the stories especially in the time when she was an infant. Even though, the narrations are somewhat exaggerated while Nisa was telling, even then the author mentioned that a number of women can recount to Nisa's life despite the geographic distance flanked by them or even the differences in the society. Nearly all of the women that were if the same age were clearly relating to Nisa otherwise if those women went during the similar conditions ...