Michael Lambek

Michael Joshua Lambek FRSC (born 11 June 1950) is a 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] Lambek is known for his works on Mayotte and its people.

Michael Lambek FRSC
Born	Michael Joshua Lambek (1950-06-11) 11 June 1950 (age 74)
Nationality	Canadian
Academic background
Alma mater	McGill University University of Michigan
Academic work
Discipline	Anthropology
Sub-discipline	Anthropology of religion
Institutions	University 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)
• Cohabiting with Spirits: The Biography of a Marriage in Mayotte (2025)