Series 5 - Professional Associations and Meetings

0.95 m of textual records

This series documents Prof. Lee’s activities in several associations and professional groups throughout his career. Some of the key professional associations include: American Anthropology Association, Canadian Ethnology Society/ société Canadienne d’éthnologie (CESCE), Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Kalahari People’s Fund, Anthropologists for a Radical Political Action. Files can contain correspondence, memos, reports, agenda, minutes, notes from meeting or talks, planning documents.

Of particular note and significance to the field of anthropology and to Lee’s role within the profession is documentation on some early 1970s events and developments.

• The 1971 AAA meeting marked with controversy over the Thailand Report and the issue of funding sources for anthropological research
• The Anthropologists for Radical Political Action (ARPA) - a result of the above controversy and of which Lee was a founding member.
• The 1972 AAA meeting, held in Toronto - Lee organized the Political Struggles of Native Peoples Symposium (also referred to as New Native Resistance symposium) as well as the China Symposium.
• The 1972 Canadian Inter-University Seminar on economic and underdevelopment in Canada’s north - first proposed by Prof. Lee along with Professors Bill Kemp and Harvey Feit of McGill, these proposed multi-discipline meetings were a reaction to the concern of American dominance over disciplines such as anthropology.
• The Conference on Hunting and Gathering Peoples and National Development organized by Lee in 1976 as Chair of the African Studies Programme Committee

There is also extensive documentation on the Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS). This meeting was held internationally every 2nd year and Lee was an active participant and organizer.

The associations and groups documented in this series shed light on Lee’s research interest and his political activism which were interconnected.

Arrangement is by group or meeting, chronologically

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