Marshall, Lorna 1898-2002

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MARSHALL, Lorna 1898-2002

PERSONAL:

Born 1898, in Morenci, Arizona Territory (now AZ); died July 8, 2002, in Peterborough, NH; married Laurence K. Marshall (a corporate executive); children: John, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. Education: University of California—Berkeley, graduated; also pursued a doctorate.

CAREER:

Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, worked as a teacher; conducted anthropological field work among the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert c.1950s. Also narrator of documentary films.

WRITINGS:

The !Kung of Nyae Nyae, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 1976.

Nyae Nyae !Kung Beliefs and Rites, photographs by John Marshall, Peabody Museum, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), 1999.

Contributor to books, including Peoples of Africa, edited by J. Gibbs, Jr., Holt, Rinehart & Winston (New York, NY), 1965; and Contemporary Studies on Khoisan, Part 2, edited by R. Vossen and K. Keuthman, Helmut Buske Verlag (Hamburg, Germany), 1986. Contributor to periodicals, including Africa and Botswana Notes and Records.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

ONLINE

Documentary Educational Resources Web site,http://www.der.org (January 27, 2003).

Living on Earth Today Web site,http://www.loe.org/ (January 27, 2003).

OBITUARIES:

PERIODICALS

Faces: People, Places, and Cultures, February, 2003, p. 2.*

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