Michael Lambek

Michael Joshua Lambek (born 11 June 1950) is Canadian anthropologist who serves as professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He is a specialist in the anthropology of religion.

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)