It focuses on her relationship with Nelson Denoon , a controversial American anthropologist who has founded an experimental matriarchal village in the Kalahari desert .
It is a first - person narrative by an unnamed American anthropology graduate student in Botswana around 1980 .
narrative focuses on her relationship with Nelson Denoon , a controversial American anthropologist who has founded an experimental matriarchal village in the Kalahari desert .
It is a first - person narrative by an unnamed American anthropology graduate student in Botswana around 1980 .