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Michael Lambek Editor & Author

Michael Lambek is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto at Scarborough. He is the author of two books and numerous articles on the Malalgasy speakers of Mayotte, in the western Indian Ocean where he has conducted research since 1975. More recent work includes A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion. Together with Paul Antze he edited Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory. Lambek is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and president-elect of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion.