'Richard Borshay Lee' is a
Canadian anthropologist. Lee has studied at the
University of Toronto and
University of California, Berkeley, where he received a
Ph.D. Presently, he holds a position at the University of Toronto as Professor of Anthropology. Lee is also currently researching issues concerning the
indigenous people of
Botswana and
Namibia, particularly their ecology and history.
Known best for his work on the
Ju'/hoansi, Lee won the 1980
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for his book ''The !Kung San: Men, Women, and Work in a Foraging Society''.
With
Irven DeVore, Lee was co-organiser of the 1966
University of Chicago Symposium on "Man the Hunter".
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In 2003, ''Anthropologica'', the journal of the
Canadian Anthropology Society, dedicated an issue to Lee's oeuvre. Most recently, Richard Lee edited The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunter-Gatherers, which was published in March 2005.
Selected publications
Lee, Richard Borshay
★ ''Subsustence Ecology of !Kung Bushmen'' (1965), PhD Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.
★ ''The !Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Society'' (1979), Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
★ ''The Dobe Ju/'hoansi'' (2003), 3rd ed., Thomson Learning/Wadsworth.
Awards
★ 1980 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for ''The !Kung San: Men, Women, and Work in a Foraging Society''
★ 1980 Herskovits Award of the African Studies Association for ''The !Kung San: Men, Women, and Work in a Foraging Society''
External links
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Anthropologica Vol. 45 No. 1, 2003
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Expanded Bibliography by Jacqueline Solway
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Biography of Richard Lee