The !Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging SocietyFor most of human history hunting and gathering was a universal way of life. Richard Borshay Lee spent over three years conducting fieldwork among the Kung San, an isolated population of 1,000 in northern Botswana. When Lee began his work in 19863, the Kung San were one of the last of the world's people to live this life. By 1973, when Lee last lived with the group, it appeared that they Kung were a society on the threshold of a transformation that