Please answer the following question: Facts: - fields: anthropology - death date: 08 july 2002 - children: elizabeth marshall thomas , john kennedy marshall - birth date: 14 september 1898 - partner: laurence marshall - death place: peterborough , new hampshire - birth place: morenci , arizona territory - alma mater: harvard university Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of lorna marshall .
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lorna marshall -lrb- september 14 , 1898 -- july 8 , 2002 -rrb- , born lorna jean mclean , was an anthropologist who in the 1950s , 60s and 70s lived among and wrote about the previously unstudied !kung people of the kalahari desert .marshall was born in morenci , arizona territory .she married laurence kennedy marshall in 1926 ; they had a daughter elizabeth marshall thomas -lrb- born 1931 -rrb- and a son john kennedy marshall -lrb- 1932 -- 2005 -rrb- .marshall received a ba in english literature from uc berkeley in 1921 and an ma from radcliffe college in 1928 , and before 1926 worked as an english instructor at mount holyoke .later she took anthropology courses at harvard university and had a second career as an ethnographer .her husband was born in medford , massachusetts in 1889 , studied at tufts university , and co-founded the raytheon company in 1922 where he worked until 1950 .in 1951 , the marshall family went to south-west africa -lrb- now namibia -rrb- to conduct an ethnographic study of the !kung of nyae nyae -lrb- also known as the ju / ' hoansi or ju / ' hoan bushmen -rrb- .the family became deeply engaged in this work and returned to africa on several expeditions throughout the 1950s and 1960s , each lasting from a few months to a year and a half .as elizabeth marshall thomas explains in her book , '' the old way '' , laurence marshall attempted to recruit an anthropologist to join their expeditions , but no one was interested .it then fell to lorna marshall to conduct ethnographic interviews and compile fieldnotes , despite the fact that she had no formal anthropological training .during the 1960s and 1970s , marshall published numerous articles on !kung culture and religion .her first book , '' the !kung of nyae nyae '' , was published in 1976 to positive reviews including one by alan barnard , who called marshall '' one of the most sensitive , meticulous and unpretentious ethnographers of all time . ''marshall enjoyed a long career , publishing her second book , '' nyae nyae...