Nisa
In this paper I am going to discuss the book Nisa The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman, by Marjorie Shostak. In doing this I will describe the culture of the !Kung people, a small hunter-gatherer tribe in Africa. Then I will go on with telling about their sociocultural systems that I have read about in this book. To rap things up I will tell my prediction where the !Kung population is headed into the future. I will use explanations from the book to help me describe my prediction. !Kung culture is a very simple culture. The norms in this society are hard to define; norms are shared rules that define how people are supposed to behave under certain circumstances. Take marriage for example In the book Nisa explains how a women can marry more than once in her lifetime, a !Kung girl is actually married several times before she stays with one man. These appeared to me as trial marriages, the women are too young to want the marriage and usually are the ones to end it. Even after long marriage involving children things such as death and divorce/ separation occur and a woman finds a new husband. So as you can see the norms in the !Kung culture are much different than that of our own norms. Even when marriage is involved the idea of h
When you first learn how to go into a trance a drug is taken to induce trance. Being a healer would be considered an achieved status, a status that results at least in part from a person's specific actions. Their decisions about their children are always equal, although it seems that the mother gets the final say in what the final decisions are. Although not much is expected of the !Kung children their curiosity makes up for it. When the mother is feeling well enough after the birth, which is usually a few days or as soon as the milk comes in, the baby will go gathering with the mother. Life does not need to be so complicated as we now have it. " Most children fear their father's beatings, therefore, will not tell on their mothers. When she came back carrying firewood, I thought, "I am going to tell!" Then I thought, "Should I tell Daddy or shouldn't I?" But when we arrived back at the village, I didn't say anything. "Working for the Hereros isn't good. In conclusion I feel that the !Kung culture is very endanger of becoming extinct. Social structure, the sum of the patterns of relationships within a society, as presented in Nisa shows that much goes into a society.
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