# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-borshay-lee
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:06:19.620Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-borshay-lee"
name: "Richard Borshay Lee"
slug: "richard-borshay-lee"
description: "Richard Borshay Lee is a Canadian anthropologist. Lee has studied at the University of Toronto and University of California, Berkeley, where he received a Ph.D. He holds a position at the University of Toronto as professor emeritus of Anthropology. Lee researches issues concerning the indigenous people of Botswana and Namibia, particularly their ecology and history."
tagline: "Canadian anthropologist (born 1937)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1937-09-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.553709333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ли, Ричард Боршей"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B4%D9%8A_%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "ريتشارد بورشي لي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard B. Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Borshay_Lee"
    title: "Richard Borshay Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Borshay_Lee"
    title: "Richard Borshay Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Borshay_Lee"
    title: "Richard Borshay Lee"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Borshay_Lee"
    title: "Richard Borshay Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4260657"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump