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". [1]

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

• Subsistence 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

• Anthropologica Vol. 45 No. 1, 2003
• Expanded Bibliography by Jacqueline Solway
• Biography of Richard Lee

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