Ethnology -- Namibia

Scope and Contents Note: This notebook contains journal and fieldnote entries from July 4 to August 14, 1955, written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas while doing research with her family among the G/ui and Ju/’hoansi, !Kung speaking San hunter-gatherers in Namibia and Botswana. This was the 4th of 8 expeditions the Marshall family made in 1950-1961 to study the lifeways of African peoples living in and around the Kalahari Desert. It contains details about their interactions and conversations with people they...

Scope and Content Note: This collection of notebooks and journals written respectively by Lorna Jean McLean Marshall and Laurence Kennedy Marshall cover seven of the Marshall Family’s eight journeys to Namibia, Botswana, Angola, and South Africa to research the lifeways of African hunter-gatherers, primarily the G/ui and Ju/’hoansi. Of note are Laurence Marshall's "record books" including: expenditures; travel planning information (packing lists, distance, and mileage); film and photographic technical...

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,...

Scope and Contents: This collection comprises expedition correspondence, field note excerpts, field reports, research permits, bibliographies, news clippings, South West African government reports, and financial records (inventories, purchase lists, expense records, travel records, receipts, and cancelled checks). Of note are records related to expedition planning (including the co-sponsorship of the Smithsonian Institution starting in 1955), correspondence and reports sent from the expedition sites, and...