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Additional authors

1. Theroux, Paul

Description

1. xxx, 274 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 27 cm

Summary

1. "Where the Roads All End" tells the remarkable story of an American family's eight anthropological expeditions to the remote Kalahari Desert in South-West Africa (Namibia) during the 1950s. Raytheon co-founder Laurence Marshall, his wife Lorna, and children John and Elizabeth recorded the lives of some of the last remaining hunter-gatherers, the so-called Bushmen, in what is now recognized as one of the most important ventures in the anthropology of Africa. Largely self-taught as ethnographers, the family supplemented their research with motion picture film and still photography to create an unparalleled archive that documents the Ju/'hoansi and the /Gwi just as they were being settled by the government onto a "Bushman Preserve." The Marshalls' films and publications popularized a strong counternarrative to existing negative stereotypes of the "Bushman" and revitalized academic studies of these southern African hunter-gatherers. This vivid and multilayered account of a unique family enterprise focuses on 40,000 still photographs in the archives of Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Illustrated with over 300 images, "Where the Roads All End" reflects on the enduring ethnographic record established by the Marshalls and the influential pathways they charted in anthropological fieldwork, visual anthropology, ethnographic film, and documentary photography.--

Subject

1. Ethnology > Kalahari Desert > History > 20th century
2. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology > Archives > Photograph collections
3. San (African people)
4. Visual anthropology > Kalahari Desert > History > 20th century
5. Marshall family
6. Kalahari Desert > Social life and customs > 20th century
7. Ethnological expeditions > Kalahari Desert > History > 20th century
8. !Kung (African people)
9. G/wi (African people)

Contents

1. Foreword: Families in the field / by Paul Theroux -- Introduction: Where the roads all end -- 1. From Cambridge to the Kalahari -- 2. Bushman mythology and Bushman anthropology -- 3. The early expeditions, 1951-1953 -- 4. Expedition photographers -- 5. The middle expeditions, 1955 and 1956 -- 6. Iconic Bushmen -- 7. The later expeditions, 1957-1961 -- 8. Changes in the Kalahari -- 9. Photographic legacies -- Appendix A. Expedition members -- Appendix B. Photo gallery of expedition members.

Call number

1. Sc F 17-123

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index.

Author

1. Barbash, Ilisa, 1959- author.

Title

1. Where the roads all end : photography and anthropology in the Kalahari / Ilisa Barbash ; foreword by Paul Theroux.

Publisher

1. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University, [2016]

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index.

Added author

1. Theroux, Paul, writer of foreword.

LCCN

1. 2016021067

ISBN

1. 9780873654098 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
2. 0873654099 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Research call number

1. Sc F 17-123