Michael Lambek
Michael Lambek | |
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| Born | Michael Joshua Lambek 11 June 1950 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
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| Discipline | Anthropology |
| Sub-discipline | Anthropology of religion |
| Institutions | University of Toronto Scarborough |
Michael Joshua Lambek FRSC (born 11 June 1950) is Canadian anthropologist who serves as professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto Scarborough.[1][2] He is a specialist in the anthropology of religion.[3] Lambek is known for his works on Mayotte and its people.
Selected publications
[edit]- Human Spirits: A Cultural Account of Trance in Mayotte (1981)
- Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte: Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery and Spirit Possession (1993)
- Tense Past (edited with Paul Antze, 1996)
- Ecology and the Sacred (edited with Ellen Messer, 2001)
- The Weight of the Past: Living with History in Mahajanga, Madagascar (2002)
- Illness and Irony (edited with Paul Antze, 2003)
- A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion (2nd ed. 2008)
- Ordinary Ethics: Anthropology, Language, and Action (ed. 2010)
- Island in the Stream: An Ethnographic History of Mayotte (2018)
- Concepts and Persons (2021)
- Behind the Glass: The Villa Tugendhat and Its Family (2022)
- Cohabiting with Spirits: The Biography of a Marriage in Mayotte (2025)
References
[edit]- ^ "Michael Lambek | Department of Anthropology". utsc.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
- ^ "Michael Lambek". Anthropology. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
- ^ "Lambek, Michael - Department for the Study of Religion". religion.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
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