Michael Lambek

Canadian anthropologist

McGill University
University of Michigan

Academic workDisciplineAnthropologySub-disciplineAnthropology of religionInstitutionsUniversity 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

^ "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.