Lorna Marshall
Lorna Marshall | |
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Born | Lorna Jean McLean September 14, 1898 Morenci, Arizona territory |
Died | July 8, 2002 | (aged 103)
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Partner | Laurence Marshall |
Children | Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, John Kennedy Marshall |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Anthropology |
Lorna Marshall (born Lorna Jean McLean; September 14, 1898 – July 8, 2002) was an anthropologist who in the 1950s, 60s and 70s lived among and wrote about the previously unstudied
Background
Marshall was born in Morenci, Arizona territory. She married Laurence Kennedy Marshall in 1926; they had a daughter
In 1951, the Marshall family went to
During the 1960s and 1970s, Marshall published numerous articles on !Kung culture and religion. Her first book, The !Kung of Nyae Nyae, was published in 1976 to positive reviews including one by Alan Barnard, who called Marshall "one of the most sensitive, meticulous and unpretentious ethnographers of all time."[4] Marshall enjoyed a long career, publishing her second book, Nyae Nyae !Kung Beliefs and Rites, in 1999 when she was 101. In addition to written ethnography, Lorna Marshall also collaborated on several ethnographic films about the !Kung of Nyae Nyae with her son, John Kennedy Marshall (1932–2005), a documentary and ethnographic filmmaker.[5]
She died at her daughter Elizabeth's home in Peterborough, New Hampshire, where she had lived since 1996, in 2002 at the age of 103; she had previously lived in the same house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, since the late 1920s.[1]
Books
- The !Kung of Nyae Nyae. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1976.
- Nyae Nyae !Kung Beliefs and Rites. Peabody Museum Monographs no. 8, 1999.
Film Credits
- First Film (1952), Editing and Narration
- !Kung Bushman Hunting Equipment (1966), Ethnography and Script
- Bitter Melons (1971), Ethnography
- A Kalahari Family (2002), Executive Producer
References
- ^ New York Times, July 30, 2002.
- ^ a b c Expeditionary notebooks and journals of Lorna and Laurence Marshall, 1928, 1951–1968 : A Finding Aid Archived 2018-07-21 at the Wayback Machine. Peabody Museum Archives. Harvard University. October 2004.
- ISBN 9780374225520.
- ^ Barnard, Alan (December 1978). "The !Kung of Nyae (Book Review)". Africa (Edinburgh University Press). 48 (4): 411.
- ^ "Guide to the John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection, 1950-2000" (PDF). Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-07-06. Retrieved 2012-12-02.