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Richard B. Lee

Richard B. Lee is a professor of anthropology at the Centre for International Health at the University of Toronto. His research interests include indigenous human rights, the anthropology of gender and HIV/AIDS in Africa.

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Marjorie Shostak

Despite a lack of formal training as an anthropologist, Marjorie Shostak wrote one of the most popular life histories in the field, Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman, in 1981. A recounting of interviews between Shostak and a woman she met in the Kalahari desert, Nisa has become a touchstone for feminist anthropological studies.