Professor Michael Lambek

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2007

Sole author

  • Lambek, Michael. 'Sacrifice and the problem of beginning: Meditations from Sakalava Mythopraxis.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 13, no. 1 (2007), pp. 19-38.
     

2005

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  • Lambek, Michael. 'Body and Mind in Mind, Body and Mind in Body.' In Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology. Edited by Moore, Henrietta; Sanders, Todd. Blackwell, 2005, pp. 424-36.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'Our Subjects/Ourselves: A View From The Back Seat.' In Autoethnographies: The Anthropology of Academic Practices. Edited by Meneley, Anne; Young, Donna. Broadview, 2005, pp. 229-240.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'Preface.' In Memory and World War II: An Ethnographic Approach. Edited by Cappelletto, Francesca. Berg, 2005, pp. xi-xvii.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'Revolted but Not Revolting: Reflections on the Sakalava Division of Labour and Forms of Subjectification.' In Slavery and Resistance in Africa and Asia. Edited by Alpers, Edward; Campbell, Gwyn; Salman, Michael. Routledge, 2005, pp. 127- 138.
     

2004

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  • Lambek, Michael. 'Janice Boddy.' In Biographical Dictionary of Anthropologists. Edited by Amit, Vered. Routledge, 2004.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'Paul Stoller.' In Biographical Dictionary of Anthropologists. Edited by Amit, Vered. Routledge, 2004.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'Revolted but Not Revolting: Reflections on the Sakalava Division of Labour and Forms of Subjectification.' Slavery and Abolition 25, no. 2 (2004), pp. 108-119.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'The Saint, the Sea Monster, and an Invitation to a Dîner-Dansant: Ethnographic Reflections on the Edgy Passage--and the Double Edge--of Modernity, Mayotte 1975-2001.' Anthropologica (2004), pp. 57-68.
     

2003

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  • Lambek, Michael. 'Irony and Illness--Recognition and Refusal.' In Illness and Irony. Edited by Lambek, M.; Antze, P. Berghahn, 2003, pp. 1-19.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'Memory in a Maussian Universe.' In Regimes of Memory. Edited by Radstone, Susannah; Hodgkin, Katharine. Routledge, 2003, pp. 202-216.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'Preface.' In The Ceremonial Animal: A New Portrait of Anthropology. Edited by James, Wendy. Oxford University Press, 2003.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'Rheumatic irony: questions of agency and self-deception as refracted through the art of living with spirits.' Social analysis 47, no. 2 (2003), pp. 40-59.
     

Co-author

  • Lambek, Michael; Antze, P (eds.). Illness and irony: on the ambiguity of suffering in culture. Berghahn, 2003.
     

2002

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  • Lambek, Michael (ed.). A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion. Blackwell, 2002.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'Fantasy in practice: projection and introjection, or the witch and the spirit-medium.' In Beyond rationalism: rethinking magic, witchcraft and sorcery. Edited by Kapferer, B. Berghahn, 2002, pp. 198-214.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. Fantasy in practice: projection and introjection, or the witch and the spirit-medium. 46. 2002.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'Nuriaty, the Saint and the Sultan: Virtuous Subject and Subjective Virtuoso of the Post-Modern Colony.' In Post-Colonial Subjectivities. Edited by Werbner, Richard. Zed Books, 2002, pp. 25-43.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'Taboo.' In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Edited by Smelser, Neil; Baltes, Paul. Elsevier, 2002, pp. 15429-31.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. The weight of the past: living with history in Mahajanga, Madagascar. Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
     

2001

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  • Lambek, Michael. 'Rappaport on Religion: A Social Anthropological Reading.' In In Ecology and the Sacred: Engaging the Anthropology of Roy A. Rappaport. Edited by Messer, Ellen; Lambek, Michael. University of Michigan Press, 2001.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'The value of coins in a Sakalava polity; money, death, and historicity in Mahajanga, Madagascar.' Comparative studies in society and history 43, no. 4 (2001), pp. 735-762.
     

Co-author

  • Lambek, Michael; Messer, Ellen (eds.). Ecology and the Sacred: Engaging the Anthropology of Roy A. Rappaport. University of Michigan Press, 2001.
     
  • Lambek, Michael; Solway, J. 'Just Anger: Scenarios of Indignation in Botswana and Madagascar.' Ethnos 66, no. 1 (2001), pp. 1-23.
     
  • Lambek, Michael; Solway, J. 'Weber in Southern Africa? Reflections on the Comaroffs' From Revelation to Revolution II.' Interventions 3, no. 1 (2001), pp. 119-126.
     

2000

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  • Lambek, Michael. 'Localizing Islamic Performances in Mayotte.' In Inside and Outside the Mosque: The Anthropology of Muslim Prayer Across the Indian Ocean. Edited by Parkin, David; Headley, Stephen. Curzon, 2000, pp. 63-97.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'Nuriaty, the Saint, and the Sultan: Virtuous Subject and Subjective Virtuoso of the Post-Modern Colony.' Anthropology Today 16, no. 2 (2000), pp. 7-12.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'The Anthropology of Religion and the Quarrel between Poetry and Philosophy.' Current Anthropology 41, no. 3 (2000), pp. 309-320.
     

1999

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  • Lambek, Michael. 'Like Teeth Biting Tongue: The Proscription and Practice of Spouse Abuse in Mayotte.' In To Have & To Hit: Cultural Perspectives on Wife Beating. Edited by Counts, D.; Brown, J. K.; Campbell, J. Univ. of Illinois Press, 1999, pp. 187- 202.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'The Imagined Community of the Antankaraña: Identity, History, and Ritual in Northern Madagascar.' In Ancestors, Power & History in Madagascar. Edited by Middleton, Karen. 1999, pp. 145-74.
     

1998

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  • Lambek, Michael. 'Body and Mind in Mind, Body and Mind in Body: Some Anthropological Interventions in a Long Conversation.' In Bodies and Persons: Comparative Perspectives from Africa and Melanesia. CUP, 1998, pp. 103-123.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'Taboo as Cultural Practice among Malagasy Speakers.' In Taboo as Cultural Practice among Malagasy Speakers. Edited by Bowen, John. Allyn and Bacon, 1998.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'The Sakalava Poiesis of History: Realizing the Past through Spirit Possession in Madagascar.' American Ethnologist 25, no. 2 (1998), pp. 106-127.
     

Co-author

  • Lambek, Michael; Strathern, Andrew (eds.). Bodies and Persons: Comparative Perspectives from Africa and Melanesia. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
     
  • Lambek, Michael; Strathern, Andrew. 'Introduction.' In Bodies and Persons: Comparative Perspectives from Africa and Melanesia. CUP, 1998, pp. 1-25.
     

1997

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  • Lambek, Michael. 'Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte: An Overview.' Cultural Dynamics 9, no. 2 (1997), pp. 131-148.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'Monstrous Desires and Moral Disquiet: Reflections on Jean Comaroff's Consuming Passions: Child Abuse, Fetishism, and "The New World Order.".' Culture 17 (1997), pp. 19-25.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'Pinching the Crocodile's Tongue: Affinity and The Anxieties of Influence in Fieldwork.' Anthropology and Humanism 22, no. 1 (1997), pp. 31-53.
     

Co-author

  • Lambek, Michael; Boddy, Janice. 'Introduction: Culture in Question.' Social Analysis 41, no. 3 (1997), pp. 3-23.
     
  • Lambek, Michael; Walsh, Andrew. 'The Imagined Community of the Antankaraña: Identity, History, and Ritual in Northern Madagascar.' Journal of Religion in Africa XXVII, no. 3 (1997), pp. 308-333.
     

1996

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  • Lambek, Michael. 'Afterword: Spirits and their Histories, to Spirits.' In Culture, History and Mind. Edited by Howard, Alan; Mageo, Jeannette. Routledge, 1996, pp. 237-249.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'Possession.' In Encyclopedic Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Edited by Barnard, Alan; Spencer, Jonathan. Routledge, 1996.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'The Past Imperfect: Remembering as Moral Practice.' In Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory. Routledge, 1996, pp. xi-xxxviii.
     

Co-author

  • Lambek, Michael; Antze, Paul. 'Introduction: Forecasting Memory.' In Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory. Routledge, 1996, pp. xi-xxxviii.
     
  • Lambek, Michael; Antze, Paul (eds.). Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory. Routledge, 1996.
     

1995

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  • Lambek, Michael. 'Choking on the Qur'an and Other Consuming Parables from the Western Indian Ocean Front.' In The Pursuit of Certainty. Edited by James, Wendy. Routledge, 1995, pp. 252-275.
     

1993

Sole author

  • Lambek, Michael. Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte: Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery, and Spirit Possession. University of Toronto Press, 1993.
     

1992

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  • Lambek, Michael. 'Like Teeth Biting Tongue: The Proscription and Practice of Spouse Abuse in Mayotte.' In Sanctions and Sanctuary: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Beating of Wives. Edited by Brown, Judith K.; Counts, Dorothy; Campbell, Jacqueline. Westview, 1992, pp. 157-171.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'Motherhood and Other Careers in Mayotte.' In In Her Prime. 2nd. University of Illinois Press, 1992, pp. 76-92.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'Taboo as Cultural Practice among Malagasy Speakers.' Man 27 (1992), pp. 19-42.
     

1991

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  • Lambek, Michael. 'Foreward.' In The Varieties of Sensory Experience. Edited by Howes, David. University of Toronto Press, 1991, pp. ix-xi.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'Introduction: Treading Beyond Objectivism.' Culture 11, no. 1-2 (1991), pp. 3-14.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'Tryin' to Make It Real But Compared to What?' Culture 11, no. 1-2 (1991), pp. 29-38.
     

1990

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  • Lambek, Michael. 'Certain Knowledge, Contestable Authority: Power and Practice on the Islamic Periphery.' American Ethnologist 17, no. 1 (1990), pp. 23-40.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'Exchange, Time, and Person in Mayotte: The Structure and Destructuring of a Cultural System.' American Anthropologist 92, no. 3 (1990), pp. 647-661.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'The Practice of Islamic Experts in a Village on Mayotte.' Journal of Religion in Africa XX, no. 1 (1990), pp. 20-40.
     

1989

Sole author

  • Lambek, Michael. 'From Disease to Discourse: Remarks on the Conceptualization of Trance and Spirit Possession.' In Altered States of Consciousness and Mental Health: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Edited by Ward, Colleen. Sage Press, 1989, pp. 36-61.
     

1988

Sole author

  • Lambek, Michael. 'Graceful Exits: Spirit Possession as Personal Performance in Mayotte.' Culture VIII, no. 1 (1988), pp. 59-69.
     
  • Lambek, Michael. 'Spirit Possession/Spirit Succession: Aspects of Social Continuity in Mayotte.' American Ethnologist 15, no. 4 (1988), pp. 710-31.
     

1987

Sole author

  • Lambek, Michael. 'The Playful Side of Islam and Its Possible Fate in Mayotte.' Omaly sy Anio (Yesterday and Today) 25-26 (1987), pp. 99-122.
     

1986

Co-author

  • Lambek, Michael; Breslar, J. 'Ritual and Social Change: The Case of Funerals in Mayotte.' In Madagascar: Society and History. Edited by Kottak, Conrad; Rakotoarisoa, Jean-Aimé; Southall, Aidan; Vérin, Pierre. Carolina Academic Press, 1986.
     

1985

Sole author

  • Lambek, Michael. 'Motherhood and Other Careers in Mayotte.' In In Her Prime: The Worlds of Middle-Aged Women. Edited by Brown, Judith K.; Kerns, Virginia. Bergin and Harvey Press, 1985.
     

1983

Sole author

  • Lambek, Michael. 'Virgin Marriage and the Autonomy of Women in Mayotte.' Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 9, no. 2 (1983), pp. 264-81.
     

1981

Sole author

  • Lambek, Michael. Human Spirits: A Cultural Account of Trance in Mayotte. Cambridge University Press, 1981.
     

Co-author

  • Lambek, Michael; Lambek, J. 'The Kinship Terminology of Malagasy Speakers in Mayotte.' Anthropological Linguistics 23, no. 4 (1981), pp. 154-82.
     

1980

Sole author

  • Lambek, Michael. 'Spirits and Spouses: Possession as a System of Communication among the Malagasy Speakers of Mayotte.' American Ethnologist 7, no. 2 (1980), pp. 318-31.
     

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