Scope and Contents
This collection includes research material collected and produced in part by Lorna Jean McLean Marshall regarding the Marshall family’s eight journeys to Namibia, Botswana and Angola to research the lifeways of African hunter-gatherers, primarily the G/ui and Ju/’hoansi. Of note are detailed itineraries; files organized by subject matter; chronological files; correspondence; notes by other scholars who accompanied the Marshalls on their expeditions, including Robert Dyson, J. Otis Brew, Charles Handley, Ernst Westphal, and Nicholas England; and notes by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and John Marshall. In addition, there are excerpts from notebooks kept by Lorna Marshall during the 1955 expedition and files on the 1959 and 1961 expeditions. A large portion of this collection is comprised of notes and drafts for Lorna Marshall’s book, Nyae Nyae !Kung Beliefs and Rites.
Dates
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1952 - 1990
Creator
- Marshall, Lorna (1898-2002) (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted
Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
29 boxesBiographical / Historical
Lorna Jean McLean Marshall (1898-2002) was an anthropologist, known for her ethnographic studies of the Ju/’hoansi, !Kung language speaking hunter-gatherers of the Kalahari in north-eastern Namibia. She authored the books The !Kung of Nyae Nyae (1976) and Nyae Nyae !Kung: Beliefs and Rites (1999), as well as several articles and films. She was born in Morenci, Arizona territory, married Laurence Kennedy Marshall (1889-1980) in 1926 and had two children: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (1931-) and John Kennedy Marshall (1932-2005). Lorna was a teacher at Mount Holyoke College before her marriage and received a BA in English Literature from UC Berkeley in 1921, and an MA in English from Radcliffe College in 1928.
Sources
- Barbash, Ilisa. Where the Roads All End: Photography and Anthropology in the Kalahari. Peabody Museum Press, 2016.
- New York Times obituary for Lorna Marshall, July30, 2002, p.17, accessed through Lexis-Nexis database.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, April 9, 2018
General note
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Processing Information
All text in [brackets] indicates wording added by a procesing archivist, while un-bracketed text is copied verbatim from the original folder.
Processed by Patricia H. Kervick and Kimberly Allegretto. This finding aid was written by Patricia H. Kervick and Kimberly Allegretto. It was revised in 2023 as part of the Institute of Museum and Library Services Marshall Family Archives digitization grant [MA-245387- OMS-20], with work by Ilisa Barbash, Morgan Jackson-Flowers, Angela Lee, and Katherine Satriano.
Genre / Form
Topical
- Ethnological expeditions -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
- Ethnology -- Angola
- Ethnology -- Namibia
- Ethnology -- South Africa
- Ethnology--Botswana
- G/wi (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Hunting and gathering societies
- Ju/'hoansi (African people) -- Social life and customs
- San (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Visual anthropology -- Africa
- Women anthropologists
Creator
- Marshall, Lorna (1898-2002) (Person)
- Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall, 1931- (Person)
- Marshall, Laurence (1898-1980) (Person)
- Brew, J. O. (John Otis), 1906-1988 (Person)
- England, Nicholas M. (Person)
- Author
- Peabody Museum Archives
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- pea00097
Repository Details
Part of the Peabody Museum Archives Repository
Papers in the Peabody Museum Archives consist of primary source materials that document the Museum’s archaeological and ethnographic research and fieldwork since its founding in 1866. More than 2,800 feet of archival paper collections contain documents, papers, manuscripts, correspondence, data, field notes, maps, plans, and other historical records that represent diverse peoples from around the world, and which were created or collected by the Museum, its individual affiliates, or related entities. The collections also document the history or provenience, as well as the creation of, many of the Museum’s archaeological and ethnographic collections.