Lorna Marshall

Lorna Marshall
Born
Lorna Jean McLean

(1898-09-14)September 14, 1898
Morenci, Arizona territory
DiedJuly 8, 2002(2002-07-08) (aged 103)
Peterborough, New Hampshire
Alma materHarvard University
PartnerLaurence Marshall
ChildrenElizabeth Marshall Thomas, John Kennedy Marshall
Scientific career
FieldsAnthropology

Lorna Marshall (born Lorna Jean McLean; September 14, 1898 – July 8, 2002) was an anthropologist who in the 1950s, 60s and 70s lived among and wrote about the previously unstudied !Kung people of the Kalahari Desert.[1][2]

  1. ^ Douglas Martin, "Lorna Marshall, 103, Early Scholar on Africa's Bushmen", obituary in the New York Times, July 30, 2002.
  2. ^ Expeditionary notebooks and journals of Lorna and Laurence Marshall, 1928, 1951–1968 : A Finding Aid Archived 2018-07-21 at the Wayback Machine. Peabody Museum Archives. Harvard University. October 2004.