Peabody Museum: Where the Roads all End: The Marshall Family's Kalahari Photography

Date: 

Wednesday, May 10, 2017, 6:00pm

Location: 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138

 

3D Lecture and Book Signing 

The Marshall family, which filmed and studied the Ju/’hoansi of the Kalahari Desert, created one of the most significant visual anthropology projects of the twentieth century. Sponsored by the Peabody Museum, the Marshalls made eight trips to Namibia (then South West Africa) in the 1950s to document some of the world’s last surviving self-sufficient hunter-gatherers, the Ju/’hoansi and G/wi people (earlier known pejoratively as “Bushmen” and later as the !Kung and the San). Using the Marshall family’s collection of stereo views taken with a Stereo Realist camera, Ilisa Barbash will discuss the Marshalls’ archive of over 40,000 photographs, the subject of the new book, Where the Roads All End: Anthropology and Photography in the Kalahari (Peabody Museum Press).

The lecture will be followed by a reception and book signing. Books will be available for purchase at the event, at the front desk of the Peabody Museum, and from Harvard University Press.

Free and open to the public.  

ORGANIZER: Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
EVENT CONTACT: Ilisa Barbash 
EVENT WEBSITEhttps://www.peabody.harvard.edu/