Richard Lee: The Politics, Art and Science of Anthropology

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  • Christine Ward Gailey University of California, Riverside

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ethnological theory, foraging societies, political anthropology, primitive communism, Richard Lee, San

Abstract

This introduction to the work of Richard B. Lee provides both a biographical sketch and an examination of major contributions his research has made to anthropology today. The biographical sketch of Richard B. Lee situates his development as a political anthropologist in the 1960s. The intellectual biography addresses his involvement in key debates about foraging peoples, the historicity of primitive communism, the social construction of gender and gender hierarchies, four-fields approaches in anthropology, and the role of the anthropologist in indigenous rights.

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2022-06-16

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Gailey, C. W. (2022). Richard Lee: The Politics, Art and Science of Anthropology. Anthropologica, 45(1), 19–26. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/2273