Marjorie Shostak
Anthropologist, Author
1945 – 1996
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Who was Marjorie Shostak?
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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- Born
- May 11, 1945
Brooklyn - Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Brooklyn College
- Lived in
- Brooklyn
- Died
- Oct 6, 1996
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on July 23, 2013
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