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  • The Ethical Condition

    Essays on Action, Person & Value

    by Michael Lambek ...
    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 one—we may not always be good or just, but we are always subject to their criteria. Detailing Lambek's ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Behind the Glass

    The Villa Tugendhat and Its Family

    by Michael Lambek ...
    The Villa Tugendhat, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1928, is an icon of architectural modernism and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Behind the Glass tells the true story of the large family connected to it, who rose to prominence through industrial textile manufacturing.The book traces the transformations in the life of the family, from their roots in a Jewish ghetto to part of the wealthy ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Cohabiting with Spirits

    The Biography of a Marriage in Mayotte

    by Michael Lambek ...
    Series series Anthropological Horizons
    Possession aptly describes the explicit manifestations of spirits when they temporarily displace individuals by assuming control of their bodies and minds, but the word does not account for what it means to cohabit with them. Cohabiting with Spirits offers an intimate portrait of the intertwined lives of a married couple together with the various spirits who came to possess each of them. Set ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Difficult Attachments

    Anxieties of Kinship and Care

    by Kathryn E. Goldfarb, Sandra Bamford, Marilyn Strathern, Janelle S. Taylor, Jason Danely, Celeste Pang, Danilyn Rutherford, Noa Vaisman, Erika Finestone0, Dawa Lokyitsang1, Deborah A. Boehm2, Katie Kilroy-Marac3, Patrick McKenzie4, Brady G’Sell5, Julia Kowalski6, Sonia Yuhui Zhang7, Michael Lambek8, Professor Riché J. Daniel Barnes9 ...
    Anthropologists have long considered kinship as the basis for social solidarity. Indeed, the idea that kinship is grounded in positive sociality has found its way into most anthropological accounts and has served as an orienting framework directing decades of scholarly research. But what about when it is not? What about instances when kinship is anything but ‘warm and fuzzy’ but is characterized, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Concepts and Persons

    by Michael Lambek ...
    The Tanner Lectures are a collection of educational and scientific discussions relating to human values. Conducted by leaders in their fields, the lectures are presented at renowned institutions around the world, including the Universities of Oxford, Harvard, and Yale. In January 2019, University of Toronto’s Michael Lambek, professor, former Canada Research Chair, and member of the Royal Society ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion

    Edited by Janice Boddy, Michael Lambek ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
    A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion presents a collection of original, ethnographically-informed essays that explore the variety of beliefs, practices, and religious experiences in the contemporary world and asks how to think about religion as a subject of anthropological inquiry.Presents a collection of original, ethnographically-informed essays exploring the wide variety of beliefs, ... Read more

    $51.00 USD

  • Island in the Stream

    An Ethnographic History of Mayotte

    by Michael Lambek ...
    Series series Anthropological Horizons
    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 backwater to a full département of the French state. In a highly unusual postcolonial trajectory, ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Tense Past

    Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory

    Edited by Paul Antze, Michael Lambek ...
    Tense Past provides a much needed appraisal and contextualization of the upsurge of interest in questions of memory and trauma evident in multiple personality and post-traumatic stress disorders, child abuse, and commemoration of the Holocaust. Contributors examine the historical origins of memory in psychiatric discourse and show its connection to broader developments in Western science and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte

    Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery and Spirit Possession

    by Michael Lambek ...
    Series series Anthropological Horizons
    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 contribution to writing on African systems of thought, on local forms of religious and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Four Lectures on Ethics

    Anthropological Perspectives

    by Michael Lambek, Veena Das, Didier Fassin, Webb Keane ...
    Series series Masterclass
    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 and responses, important topics facing anthropological ethics and the theoretical debates that ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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