Richard Borshay Lee

Richard Borshay Lee (born 1937) is a Canadian anthropologist and University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, where he earned his B.A. and M.A. before obtaining his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He is renowned for his extensive fieldwork among the Ju/'hoansi (!Kung San) hunter-gatherers of Botswana and Namibia, authoring seminal works such as The !Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Society (1979), which won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and The Dobe Ju/'hoansi (2003), while also co-editing The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunters and Gatherers (1999). His career highlights include leadership in anthropological societies, membership in the Royal Society of Canada, and pioneering research on indigenous rights, ecology, and the anthropology of AIDS in southern Africa.