Series 2 - Research

4.06 m of textual, graphic and architectural records

This series contains research records such as field notes, data sets, notes and drafts of the beginnings of papers, correspondence and planning documents relating to research activities.

B2007-0018 contains the most extensive set of field notebooks. Acquired in this accession were the copies for his two earliest field excursions among the !Kung San in 1963-64 and again in 1967-69. An original set of the 1963-64 set as well as his 1973 field trip notebooks were acquired as part of B2019-0017 donation, with the odd one missing from the series. For a complete list see Appendix 2. B2007-0018 also included original collected data on height and weight of the !Kung San. This originates in both hand written spread sheets and in collated computer data printouts for the years 1967-1971. Finally there is a vocabulary card list, and one box of files with transcripts of interviews with Lee, newspaper clippings

B2012-0012 acquisition provided additional notebooks, primary field research, data, and supplementary research to his initial and later research fields.

B2019-0017 contained some of the original field notebooks as described above and in appendix 2. This accession also contains Lee’s extensive research organized into the book chapters for The !Kung San (1979). These files are followed by later research in the 1980s and 1990s relating to his areas of expertise on the indigenous peoples of Namibia and Botswana. There are also extensive files documenting his shifting interest in medical anthropology and the social cultural aspects of HIV/Aids in southern Africa Research files document his leadership and active involvement in the Fogerty / University of Namibia program.

B2007-0018:
Field notes – B2007-0018/010 – /014. For detailed list see Appendix
Height and Weight Charts – B2007-0018/015
Vocabulary Cards – B2007-0018/016
Other files – B2007-0018/017
B2012-0012:
Notebooks – B2012-0012/004
Ecology and Social Change in Bushman Hunter-Gatherers Binder – B2012-0012/005
Primary research – B2012-0012/006-/007, /018 notecards, /002P aerial photos
Supplementary research and miscellaneous notes – B2012-0012/008, /018, /001A map
B2019-0017:
Field notebooks – B2019-0017/003
Research by Chapter for !Kung San book – B2019-0017/004 and /005
Other research files arranged chronologically – B2019-0017/005 and /006
HIV/Aids research – Fogerty/Namibia program – B2019-0017/006

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