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      Cohabiting with Spirits

      Michael Lambek

      Exploring the experience of living with spirits in everyday life and over a lifetime, Cohabiting with Spirits recounts the lives of a married couple and their cohabitation with various spirits…

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      Cohabiting with Spirits

      Michael Lambek

      Exploring the experience of living with spirits in everyday life and over a lifetime, Cohabiting with Spirits recounts the lives of a married couple and their cohabitation with various spirits…

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      Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte: Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery and Spirit Possession

      Michael Lambek

      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, local forms of religious…

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      Ordinary Ethics: Anthropology, Language, and Action

      Bringing together ethnographic exposition with philosophical concepts and arguments and effectively transcending subdisciplinary boundaries between cultural and linguistic anthropology, this book collects essays that explore the ethical entailments of speech…

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      Ordinary Ethics: Anthropology, Language, and Action

      Bringing together ethnographic exposition with philosophical concepts and arguments and effectively transcending subdisciplinary boundaries between cultural and linguistic anthropology, this book collects essays that explore the ethical entailments of speech…

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      Behind the Glass: The Villa Tugendhat and Its Family

      Michael Lambek

      Part family history, part memoir, Behind the Glass tells the story behind the famous Villa Tugendhat.

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      Human Spirits: A Cultural Account of Trance in Mayotte

      Michael Lambek

      This book describes and interprets trance behaviour among the Malagasy speakers of Mayotte. The author argues that trance can best be understood as a social activity rather than as a…

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      The Ethical Condition: Essays on Action, Person, and Value

      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…

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      The Ethical Condition

      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…

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      A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion

      A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of some of the most significant classic and contemporary writings in the field.

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      A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion

      A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of some of the most significant classic and contemporary writings in the field.

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      Concepts and Persons

      Michael Lambek

      Documenting Michael Lambek’s Tanner Lecture, Concepts and Persons is an accessible and engaging reflection on ethical life and thought.

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      Illness and Irony: On the Ambiguity of Suffering in Culture

      Theories of illness and therapy since Freud have included the possibility that sufferers are complicit in their conditions. The studies in this volume explore the ways in which illness and…

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      A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion

      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…

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      A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion

      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…

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      Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory

      Addressing the new links between trauma and memory the contributors explore how memory shapes the way traumatic events are put into narrative form. They also consider the social and political…

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      Bodies and Persons: Comparative Perspectives from Africa and Melanesia

      This book suggests a comparative approach to broad cultural differences between Africa and Melanesia. Its theme is personhood, understood in terms of what anthropologists call embodiment. Questioning common assumptions about…

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      Bodies and Persons: Comparative Perspectives from Africa and Melanesia

      This book suggests a comparative approach to broad cultural differences between Africa and Melanesia. Its theme is personhood, understood in terms of what anthropologists call embodiment. Questioning common assumptions about…

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      The Ceremonial Animal: A New Portrait of Anthropology

      Wendy James,Michael Lambek

      Adapting Wittgenstein’s concept of the human species as ‘a ceremonial animal’, Wendy James discusses the conceptual ordering of space, time, and rhythm; the mutualities of language, consciousness, ritual and religious…

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      Contest for Land in Madagascar: Environment, Ancestors and Development

      Land is the nexus of Malagasy livelihood and socio-cultural relations. Simultaneously, the Malagasy government and international stakeholders value land for its biodiversity, minerals and agricultural potential. This book provides vital…

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      Ecology and the Sacred: Engaging the Anthropology of Roy A. Rappaport

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      A meaningful homage to an extraordinary anthropologist

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      Island in the Stream: An Ethnographic History of Mayotte

      Michael Lambek,Vanessa MacDonnell

      This book follows the trajectory of life in an African island community as composed of ethnographic portraits taken over eleven visits across 40 years. It initiates an original genre of…

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      Island in the Stream: An Ethnographic History of Mayotte

      Michael Lambek,Vanessa MacDonnell

      This book follows the trajectory of life in an African island community as composed of ethnographic portraits taken over eleven visits across 40 years. It initiates an original genre of…

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      Categorial Investigations: Logical and Linguistic Aspects of the Lambek Calculus

      Michael Moortgat

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      Four Lectures on Ethics - Anthropological Perspectives

      Michael Lambek,Veena Das,Didier Fassin,Webb Keane

      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…

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      Categories and Types in Logic, Language, and Physics: Essays dedicated to Jim Lambek on the Occasion of this 90th Birthday

      For more than 60 years, Jim Lambek has been a profoundly inspirational mathematician, with groundbreaking contributions to algebra, category theory, linguistics, theoretical physics, logic and proof theory.

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      Living with Concepts: Anthropology in the Grip of Reality

      An interdisciplinary collaboration that explores what it means to live with concepts, rather than think of them as mere tools for analysis.

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      Living with Concepts: Anthropology in the Grip of Reality

      An interdisciplinary collaboration that explores what it means to live with concepts, rather than think of them as mere tools for analysis.

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      Ancestors, Power and History in Madagascar

      This collection of essays by regional specialists draws on a wide range of ethnographic and historical data to reassess the significance of the ancestors for changing relations of power and…

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