Richard B Lee

Biographic Data

ID3581053
NAMERichard B Lee
GIVEN NAMESRichard B
FAMILY NAMELee
SIGNATURELEE R B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Toronto
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS31
TOTAL CITATIONS1,139
WORKS AS AUTHOR30
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1963
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX10

  • Man the Hunter nearing 60

    Vivek V Venkataraman, Richard B LeeARTICLEHunter Gatherer Research2025

  • Reflections on primitive communism

    Richard B LeeCHAPTERHunters and Gatherers (Vol I)2024

    if a cabin of hungry [Iroquois] meets another whose provisions are not entirely exhausted, the latter share with the newcomers the little which remains to them without waiting to be asked, although they expose themselves thereby to the same danger of perishing as those whom they help at their own expense so humanely and with such greatness of soul

  • Greeks and Victorians

    Richard B LeeARTICLECulture2021References: 8

    There is a paradox in Engels’ well-known theory of state formation contained in The Origin of the Family Private Property and the State . The state in Engels’ view represented a triumph of a small elite of non-producers over the vast majority, and a world-historical defeat for the common people. Yet the Athenian state, Engels’ prime example, does not conform to the pattern: it becomes more “democratic” as the state evolves rather than less. The p…

  • Hunter-Gatherers and Human Evolution

    Richard B LeeARTICLEAnnual Review of Anthropology2018Cited by: 14References: 76

    One of the most persistent debates in anthropology and related disciplines has been over the relative weight of aggression and competition versus nonaggression and cooperation as drivers of human behavioral evolution. The literature on hunting and gathering societies-past and present-has played a prominent role in these debates. This review compares recent literature from both sides of the argument and evaluates how accurately various authors use…

  • Hunter-gatherers on the best-seller list

    Open AccessRichard B Lee, Kirk EndicottARTICLEJournal of Aggression Conflict…2014Cited by: 6References: 15

    Purpose – The question of violence in hunter-gatherer society has animated philosophical debates since at least the seventeenth century. Steven Pinker has sought to affirm that civilization, is superior to the state of humanity during its long history of hunting and gathering. The purpose of this paper is to draw upon a series of recent studies that assert a baseline of primordial violence by hunters and gatherers. In challenging this position th…

  • The !Kung and I

    Open AccessRichard B LeeARTICLEGeneral Anthropology2012References: 2

  • Anthropology at the crossroads

    Richard B LeeARTICLESocial Dynamics1998Cited by: 1References: 26

    (1998). Anthropology at the crossroads: From the age of ethnography to the age of World systems. Social Dynamics: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 34-65

  • Non-Capitalist Work

    Open AccessRichard B LeeARTICLEAnthropology of Work Review1998Cited by: 2References: 2

  • Cultural Anthropology

    Andrew J Strathern, Richard B Lee et al.BOOKCultural Anthropology1997Cited by: 108

  • Cho/Ana

    Andrew B Smith, Richard B LeeARTICLEThe South African Archaeological…1997Cited by: 11

    Andrew B. Smith, Richard B. Lee, Cho/Ana: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Evidence for Recent Hunter-Gatherer/Agropastoralist Contact in Northern Bushmanland, Namibia, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 52, No. 165 (Jun., 1997), pp. 52-58

  • Errors Corrected or Compounded? A Reply to Wilmsen

    Richard B Lee, Mathias GuentherARTICLECurrent Anthropology1995Cited by: 10

  • Problems in Kalahari Historical Ethnography and the Tolerance of Error

    Open AccessRichard B Lee, Mathias GuentherARTICLEHistory in Africa1993Cited by: 23References: 18

    The !Kung San or Bushmen of Namibia and Botswana are one of the most thoroughly documented hunting and gathering societies in the annals of African anthropology. In recent years two radically different views of the !Kung San have emerged in the anthropological literature. One sees the !Kung as hunters and gatherers living under changed circumstances and maintaining an old but adaptable way of life: the characteristic features associated with the …

  • Art, Science, or Politics? The Crisis in Hunter-Gatherer Studies

    Open AccessRichard B LeeARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1992Cited by: 64References: 80

    In the complex history of hunter-gatherer studies, several overlapping and at times antagonistic discourses can be discerned. However, one critique has emerged that would render all hunter-gatherer discourses irrelevant and do away with the concept altogether. The paper explores the poststructuralist roots of this "revisionism" and then argues why the concept of hunter-gatherer continues to be politically relevant and empirically valid. However, …

  • Foragers, Genuine or Spurious

    Jacqueline S Solway, Jacqueline Solway et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1992Cited by: 72References: 1

  • Paradigmatic History of San-Speaking Peoples and Current Attempts at Revision [and Comments and Replies]

    Edwin Ν Wilmsen, Edwin N Wilmsen et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1990Cited by: 137References: 1

  • Foragers, Genuine or Spurious

    Jacqueline S Solway, Jacqueline Solway et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1990Cited by: 111

  • Politics and history in band societies

    Richard B LeeBOOKPolitics and history in band…1982Cited by: 151

    Collection of papers giving new information on the history and culture of contemporary gathering and hunting peoples from Canada, India, Africa, Australia and the Philippines. Focuses on two themes: 1) the techniques which band-living foraging peoples employ to organize their social and economic lives, and 2) their current fight for the right to their own lands and for a measure of cultural and political autonomy.

  • Archaeology

    Open AccessArthur E Spie, Arthur Spie et al.ARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1980Cited by: 2

  • "Existe-t-il un mode de production " fourrageur

    Richard B LeeARTICLEAnthropologie et Sociétés1980Cited by: 1

  • The Kung San

    Richard B LeeBOOKThe Kung San1979Cited by: 419

  • The Kung of Nyae Nyae

    Alison Redmayne, Lorna Marshall et al.ARTICLEJournal of Religion in Africa1978

  • Politics, sexual and non-sexual in an egalitarian society

    Open AccessRichard B LeeARTICLESocial Science Information1978Cited by: 5References: 8

  • Kalahari Hunter-Gatherers

    Richard B Lee, Irven DevoreEDITORBOOKKalahari Hunter-Gatherers1976

  • The Dobe-/Du/da Environment

    J E Yellen, Richard B LeeCHAPTERKalahari Hunter-Gatherers1976

  • Kung spatial organization

    Open AccessRichard B LeeARTICLEHuman Ecology1972