James Suzman is a South African anthropologist and author. He is best known for his work on the Ju/'hoansi people of the Kalahari Desert, which he has studied since the late 1980s. He is the author of Affluence Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen, which won the 2017 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize. Suzman is a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa and a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He has been awarded numerous awards for his work, including the Royal Anthropological Institute's Rivers Memorial Medal and the Society of Africanist Archaeologists' Distinguished Africanist Award.