title: Michael Lambek
text: # 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. 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)
  