...provide have not been given to us alone. I say "remind," for many anthropologists already knew this. Among the women I interviewed, Nisa stood out. She...and more important than the details they comprised. (Shostak 1981:22) Manuel, by far the most fluent and dramatic storyteller in the family, needed relatively...

...Shostak describes her process of selecting informants and her discovery of Nisa's gift for storytelling. Among the women I interviewed, Nisa stood out. She...recognizable. This was the value that her narrative had formed, and the reason it became so compelling. . . . Most of her stories were described in rich detail...