Lorna Marshall

Lorna Marshall (1898–2002), born Lorna Jean McLean, was an anthropologist who in the 1950s, 60s and 70s lived among and wrote about the previously unstudied !Kung people of the Kalahari Desert. Initially an English instructor at Mount Holyoke, she began a second career in anthropology in her fifties after following courses at Harvard University.^[1]

She was the mother of Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, and towards the end of her life lived with her daughter.

In 1986 a volume of essays was published in her honour: The Past and Future of !Kung Ethnography: Critical Reflections and Symbolic Perspectives, edited by Megan Biesele with Robert Gordon and Richard Lee. Quellen zur Khoisan-Forschung 4. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag, 1986.

Books

The !Kung of Nyae Nyae. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1976.
Nyae Nyae !Kung Beliefs and Rites. Peabody Museum Monographs no. 8, 1999.

References

^ Douglas Martin, "Lorna Marshall, 103, Early Scholar on Africa's Bushmen", obituary in the New York Times, July 30, 2002.

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Name	Marshall, Lorna
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