RICHARD BORSHAY LEE (B.A. and M.A. University of Toronto; Ph. D. University of California, Berkeley) is a University Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto and past-Chair of the African Studies Program. He has held academic appointments at Harvard, Rutgers, and Columbia Universities, and research positions at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, and at the University of British Columbia. He has lectured at over fifty universities in North America, Europe Africa, Japan and Australia.
His current research interests are in ecology, history, African Studies, indigenous peoples, AIDS, political economy, and the politics of culture.
He is internationally known for his studies of hunting and gathering societies, particularly the Ju/'hoansi-!Kung San of Botswana, with whom he has worked since 1963. Studies of foragers have also taken him to Tanzania, Namibia, Alaska, Australia, British Columbia, the Yukon, and Labrador.
In addition to one hundred articles and chapters, his books include Man the Hunter (1968), Kalahari Hunter-Gatherers (1976), The !Kung San (1979), Politics and History in Band Societies (1982), and The Dobe Ju/'hoansi (1993).
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and past-president of the Canadian Anthropology Society, Lee was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters in 1990 by the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, for his research and advocacy on behalf of foraging peoples.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Lee, Richard B. and Richard H. Daly eds.1999 The Cambridge
Encyclopedia of Hunters and Gatherers. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.