Michael Lambek

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]

Michael Lambek

Born
Michael Joshua Lambek

(1950-06-11) 11 June 1950
NationalityCanadian
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
DisciplineAnthropology
Sub-disciplineAnthropology of religion
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto Scarborough

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.


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