Michael Lambek: 4 books
Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte
Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery and Spirit Possession
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 1993
On the East African island of Mayotte, Islam co-exists with two other systems of understanding and interpreting the world around its inhabitants: cosmology and spirit-mediumship. In a witty, evocative style accessible to both the specialist and non-specialist reader, Michael Lambek provides a significant...
The Ethical Condition
Essays on Action, Person, and Value
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Written over a thirty-year span, Michael Lambek’s essays in this collection point with definitive force toward a single central truth: ethics is intrinsic to social life. As he shows through rich ethnographic accounts and multiple theoretical traditions, our human condition is at heart an ethical...
Four Lectures on Ethics
Anthropological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Anthropology has recently seen a lively interest in the subject of ethics and comparative notions of morality and freedom. This masterclass brings together four of the most eminent anthropologists working in this field—Michael Lambek, Veena Das, Didier Fassin, and Webb Keane—to discuss, via lectures...
Island in the Stream
An Ethnographic History of Mayotte
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Island in the Stream introduces an original genre of ethnographic history as it follows a community on Mayotte, an East African island in the Mozambique Channel, through eleven periods of fieldwork between 1975 and 2015. Over this 40-year span Mayotte shifted from a declining and neglected colonial...