“On Spirit Possession and Some Parallels with Reincarnation” in Spirit Possession Multidisciplinary Approaches to a Worldwide Phenomenon, Éva Pócs and András Zempléni, eds

Michael Lambek

Central European University Press, 2022

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9789633864142

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Michael Lambek is a cultural anthropologist, with a BA from McGill and PhD from the University of Michigan. He has taught at UTSC since 1978. During 2006-2008 he held a split appointment with the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics, where he was also Visiting Centennial Professor in 1997. From 2006-2020 he held a Canada Research Chair, Tier I in the Anthropology of Ethical Life and with this was able to inaugurate the Centre for Ethnography. From 2012-2020 he also served as Chair of the Department of Anthropology at UTSC. He has graduate cross-appointments in the Department for the Study of Religion and the Department of History. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2000.