Michael Lambek Explained

Michael Lambek
Birth Name:	Michael Joshua Lambek
Birth Date:	11 June 1950
Nationality:	Canadian
Discipline:	Anthropology
Sub Discipline:	Anthropology of religion
Workplaces:	University of Toronto Scarborough

Michael Joshua Lambek (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)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Michael Lambek | Department of Anthropology. utsc.utoronto.ca. 2017-08-17.
2. Web site: Michael Lambek. Anthropology. 2017-08-17.
3. Web site: Lambek, Michael - Department for the Study of Religion. religion.utoronto.ca. 2017-08-17.