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Michael Lambek
Born
Michael Joshua Lambek

(1950-06-11) 11 June 1950 (age 74)
NationalityCanadian
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
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]

Selected publications

  • 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)

References

  1. ^ "Michael Lambek | Department of Anthropology". utsc.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  2. ^ "Michael Lambek". Anthropology. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  3. ^ "Lambek, Michael - Department for the Study of Religion". religion.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 17 August 2017.