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Knowledge and practice in Mayotte : local discourses of Islam, Sorcery, and Spirit Possession.
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ISBN: 0802077838 0802029604 Year: 1993 Publisher: Toronto University of Toronto press


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Ordinary ethics : anthropology, language, and action
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ISBN: 9780823233175 9780823233168 0823233170 0823233162 9780823233182 0823233189 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York Fordham University Press

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Individual chapters consider the place of ethics with respect to conversation and interaction; judgment and responsibility; formality, etiquette, performance, ritual, and law; character and empathy; social boundaries and exclusions; socialization and punishment; and commemoration, history, and living together in peace and war. Together they offer a comprehensive portrait of an approach that is now critical for advancing anthropological theory and ethnographic description, as well as fruitful conversation with philosophy.

A reader in the anthropology of religion.
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ISBN: 0631221123 0631221131 9780631221128 9780631221135 Year: 2003 Volume: 2 Publisher: Oxford Blackwell

Knowledge and practice in Mayotte : local discourses of Islam, sorcery and spirit possession
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ISBN: 1281997277 9786611997274 1442676531 9781442676534 9781281997272 0802029604 9780802029607 0802077838 9780802077837 1442638613 Year: 1993 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press,

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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 and therapeutic practice, social accountability, and the place of explicit forms of knowledge in the analysis of non-western societies.


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Concepts and persons
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ISBN: 1487539592 1487539606 9781487539597 1487539592 9781487539603 1487539606 9781487509057 Year: 2021 Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press,

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"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 of Canada, delivered the Tanner Lecture at the University of Michigan's Department of Philosophy on the topic of "Concepts and Persons." As well as tracing his career in social and cultural anthropology, Lambek's Tanner Lecture spoke on the intersection of anthropology and philosophy as a means of articulating the moral basis of human action. By elucidating where anthropology and philosophy might intersect, Lamberk's lecture is a profound examination of the human condition, and is beautifully captured in this publication. Concepts and Persons recounts the lecture as delivered at the prestigious event, the commentary of three distinguished respondents, and Lambek's own response to that commentary. The book's presentation of the lecture also includes a rich and layered set of notes that augment the lecture significantly, as well as additional clarification and thought that has developed since the event."--

The weight of the past : living with history in Mahajanga, Madagascar
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ISBN: 1403960674 1403960682 Year: 2002 Publisher: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan,

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Four lectures on ethics : anthropological perspectives
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ISBN: 1912808080 9781912808083 9780990505075 0990505073 Year: 2015 Publisher: Chicago, Illinois : HAU Books,

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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 surround it. The authors explore the ways we understand morality across many different cultural settings, asking questions such as: How do we recognize the ethical in different ethnographic worlds? What constitutes agency and awareness in everyday life? What might an anthropology of ordinary ethics look like? And what happens when ethics approaches the political in both Western and non-Western societies. Contrasting perspectives and methods- and yet in complimentary ways- this masterclass will serve as an essential guide for how an anthropology of ethics can be formulated in the twenty-first century.


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Anthropological horizons
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Year: 1995 Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London University of Toronto Press

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Island in the stream
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ISBN: 9781487519049 1487519044 1487522991 9781487522995 Year: 2018 Publisher: Toronto

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A reader in the anthropology of religion
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ISBN: 9781405136143 9781405136150 1405136154 1405136146 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford : Blackwell,

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Collects classic and contemporary articles from the major thinkers in both North American and British anthropology Emphasizes the ongoing conversation among anthropologists with respect to central questions of religious behavior Presents comprehensive coverage of theory and religious practice, through time and ethnographic regions, integrated by editorial commentary Includes additional classic pieces by Pouillon, Burridge, and Meyerhoff, as well as more contemporary work by Harding, De Boeck, and Palmie; Includes indexed bibliography arranged according to both ethnographic region and religious topics and practices

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