Family’s photos from ’50s capture fading way of life in Kalahari Desert

Eight expeditions to the Kalahari Desert by a Cambridge family in the 1950s yielded more than 40,000 photographs that captured hunter-gatherer cultures on the verge of disappearing. Many of the photos are now on view at Harvard’s Peabody Museum in a new exhibit, “Kalahari Perspectives: Anthropology, Photography, and the Marshall Family.”

Faith Sutter • harvard
Oct. 1, 2018 ~9 min

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