Where the Roads All End

Photography and Anthropology in the Kalahari

Ilisa Barbash, Paul Theroux

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English

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S.
29 May 2017

Photographic reportage; African history; Anthropology

"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 25,000 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."

By: Ilisa Barbash
Foreword by: Paul Theroux
Imprint: Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 191mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 938g
ISBN: 9780873654098
ISBN 10: 0873654099
Pages: 302
Publication Date: 29 May 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ilisa Barbash is Museum Curator of Visual Anthropology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. Paul Theroux is a travel and fiction writer, author of The Last Train to Zona Verde and Deep South.

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

Ilisa Barbash has written a meticulously researched and illuminating book, setting out the historical, anthropological, and visual contexts for the Marshalls' famous expeditions to the Kalahari and giving us a nuanced understanding of both their pioneering work and the San communities they recorded. This is an essential book for anyone interested in the visual representation of southern Africa's peoples and the history of visual anthropology more generally.--Christopher Morton, Curator of Photography and Manuscript Collections, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford A most attractive and aesthetically pleasing work of art and of scholarship. It is so well written that one can almost smell the smoke from the campfire and hear Lorna [Marshall] speak.--Robert Gordon, author of The Bushman Myth