Michael Lambek
Michael Joshua Lambek is a Canadian anthropologist who serves as professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He is a specialist in the anthropology of religion. Lambek is known for his works on Mayotte and its people.
Selected publications
- Human Spirits: A Cultural Account of Trance in Mayotte
- Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte: Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery and Spirit Possession
- Tense Past
- Ecology and the Sacred
- The Weight of the Past: Living with History in Mahajanga, Madagascar
- Illness and Irony
- A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion
- Ordinary Ethics: Anthropology, Language, and Action
- Island in the Stream: An Ethnographic History of Mayotte
- Concepts and Persons
- Behind the Glass: The Villa Tugendhat and Its Family
- ''Cohabiting with Spirits: The Biography of a Marriage in Mayotte''