Marjorie Shostak
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American anthropologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Marjorie Shostak was an American anthropologist. Though she never received a formal degree in anthropology, she conducted extensive fieldwork among the !Kung San people of the Kalahari desert in south-western Africa and was widely known for her descriptions of the lives of women in this hunter-gatherer society.
Marjorie Shostak's Published Works
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- Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (1981) (674)
- Stone agers in the fast lane: chronic degenerative diseases in evolutionary perspective. (1988) (521)
- Stone Agers in the Fast Lane: Chronic Degenerative Diseases in Evolutionary Perspective (1988) (143)
- An evolutionary perspective enhances understanding of human nutritional requirements. (1996) (140)
- The Paleolithic Prescription: A Program of Diet & Exercise and a Design for Living (1988) (106)
- 11 A !Kung Woman's Memories of Childhood (1976) (29)
- Return to Nisa (2000) (23)
- Timing and Management of Birth among the !Kung: Biocultural Interaction in Reproductive Adaptation (1987) (23)
- What the Wind Won't Take Away: The Oral History of an African Foraging Woman. (1987) (3)
- Nisa (2000) (0)
- Glass Beadwork of the !Kung of North-Western Botswana (1976) (0)
- Timber harvesting: future perspectives (2005) (0)
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