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Shostak, Marjorie, 1945-1996

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Personal name headingShostak, Marjorie, 1945-1996
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LocatedFlatbush (New York, N.Y.)
Birth date1945-05-11
Death date1996-10-06
Place of deathAtlanta (Ga.)
Field of activityAnthropology
Profession or occupationAnthropologists
Found inHer Nisa, the life and words of a !Kung woman, 1981: t.p. (Marjorie Shostak) CIP data sheet (b. 5/11/45)
New York times WWW site, Oct. 28, 2011 (in obituary published Oct. 8, 1996: Marjorie Shostak; d. Sunday [Oct. 6, 1996], Atlanta, aged 51; woman from a traditional family in Flatbush whose book about a bold older woman from the !Kung San tribe in Africa's Kalahari Desert rode an early wave of women's studies and injected new life into techniques of anthropology)
Nisa: the life and words of a !Kung woman, Marjorie Shostak [ER], 2014 : title page frame (Nisa: the life and words of a !Kung woman, Marjorie Shostak) (
Google knowledge graph, Jan. 17, 2022 : ("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.")
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