Dr. Michael Lambek
Fellow
Current Employer
University of Toronto
Election Year
2000
Academy
Académie des sciences sociales
Discipline
Anthropology / Archaeology
Department
Department of Anthropology
Keywords
Interpretive anthropology, ritual and religion, person and self, Mayutte and Northwest Madagascar, Africa
Michael Lambek is a leading anthropologist of his generation who has significantly advanced our knowledge of rituals, local knowledge and memory, Africa, anthropological methods and theory. His publications include 2 major books, several in edited collections, and 50 book chapters and articles in leading anthropological journals. His work is widely acclaimed for the depth and sensitivity of his ethnographic research, for the theoretical sophistication of his writings, and for the sustained originality of his work. It is at the cutting edge of analytical, conceptual, and ethnographic concerns in sociocultural anthropology.