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Where the Roads All End: Photography and Anthropology in the Kalahari

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Where the Roads All End tells the remarkable story of an American circle of relatives’s eight anthropological expeditions to the remote Kalahari Desert in South-West Africa (Namibia) all over the 1950s. Raytheon co-founder Laurence Marshall, his wife Lorna, and children John and Elizabeth recorded the lives of one of the crucial last remaining hunter-gatherers, the so-referred to as Bushmen, in what is now recognized as probably the most necessary ventures within the anthropology of Africa. In large part self-taught as ethnographers, the circle of relatives 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 circle of relatives enterprise specializes in 25,000 still photographs within the archives of Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Illustrated with over 300 images, Where the Roads All End reflects at the enduring ethnographic record established by the Marshalls and the influential pathways they charted in anthropological fieldwork, visual anthropology, ethnographic film, and documentary photography.

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