Michael Lambek

7.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
106 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Michael Lambek is a scholar working on Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and Philosophy. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Lambek has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Anthropology, 36 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 12 papers in Philosophy. Recurrent topics in Michael Lambek's work include Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (39 papers), Anthropological Studies and Insights (31 papers) and Migration, Identity, and Health (8 papers). Michael Lambek is often cited by papers focused on Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (39 papers), Anthropological Studies and Insights (31 papers) and Migration, Identity, and Health (8 papers). Michael Lambek collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United Kingdom and United States. Michael Lambek's co-authors include Paul Antze, Jennifer Cole, John Leavitt, Maurice Bloch, Andrew Strathern, Erika Bourguignon, Lisette Josephides, Andrew Walsh, Malcolm R. Green and Fritz L. Kramer and has published in prestigious journals such as American Anthropologist, Current Anthropology and Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

In The Last Decade

Michael Lambek

92 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Lambek Canada	30	1.9k	1.3k	847	277	263	106	3.4k
Webb Keane United States	28	1.8k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	640 0.8×	571 2.1×	342 1.3×	61	3.9k
Joel Robbins United Kingdom	27	2.4k 1.2×	1.7k 1.3×	596 0.7×	603 2.2×	200 0.8×	93	3.6k
David I. Kertzer United States	31	2.4k 1.3×	788 0.6×	783 0.9×	177 0.6×	191 0.7×	149	4.5k
Johannes Fabian Netherlands	27	2.2k 1.1×	1.8k 1.4×	748 0.9×	456 1.6×	306 1.2×	94	5.2k
Lila Abu‐Lughod United States	29	3.8k 2.0×	1.3k 1.0×	1.8k 2.1×	181 0.7×	212 0.8×	75	6.1k
Michael M. J. Fischer United States	19	1.6k 0.8×	865 0.7×	646 0.8×	276 1.0×	199 0.8×	73	3.4k
Caroline Humphrey United Kingdom	27	1.2k 0.7×	780 0.6×	678 0.8×	284 1.0×	168 0.6×	113	2.9k
Michaël Gilsenan United States	17	2.3k 1.2×	737 0.6×	720 0.9×	261 0.9×	309 1.2×	36	4.5k
Richard Handler United States	25	1.9k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	540 0.6×	477 1.7×	200 0.8×	126	4.4k
James Laidlaw United Kingdom	14	1.1k 0.6×	743 0.6×	437 0.5×	194 0.7×	180 0.7×	32	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Lambek

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Lambek

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Lambek, Michael. (2023). On Being Present to History: Historicity and Brigand Spirits in Madagascar. 1(1). 72–91.

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Lambek, Michael. (2023). The Wrong Question?. Philosophies. 8(2). 38–38. 1 indexed citations

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Lambek, Michael, Robert W. Hefner, & Cheryl Mattingly. (2022). Portrait: Michael Lambek. 13(1). 1–22.

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Lambek, Michael. (2021). Concepts and Persons. University of Toronto Press eBooks. 6 indexed citations

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Lambek, Michael. (2021). Commentaire/Commentary. Érudit (Université de Montréal). 17(1-2). 19–25.

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Lambek, Michael. (2021). Graceful Exits: Spirit Possession as Personal Performance in Mayotte. Érudit (Université de Montréal). 8(1). 59–69.

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Mittermaier, Amira, Susan Harding, & Michael Lambek. (2019). Portrait: Saba Mahmood (In Memoriam). 10(1). 1–13.

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Lambek, Michael. (2018). Island in the Stream. University of Toronto Press eBooks. 13 indexed citations

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Lambek, Michael. (2015). The Ethical Condition. 76 indexed citations

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Evers, Sandra J.T.M., Gwyn Campbell, & Michael Lambek. (2013). Contest for land in Madagascar : environment, ancestors and development. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 6 indexed citations

11.

Lambek, Michael. (2010). Ordinary Ethics: Anthropology, Language, and Action. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 140 indexed citations

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Lambek, Michael. (2008). A reader in the anthropology of religion. Blackwell eBooks. 120 indexed citations

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Lambek, Michael & Paul Antze. (2004). Illness and irony: on the ambiguity of suffering in culture. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 17 indexed citations

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Lambek, Michael. (2003). Irony and Illness: Recognition and Refusal. Social Analysis. 47(2). 1–20. 6 indexed citations

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Lambek, Michael. (2003). Rheumatic Irony: Questions of Agency and Self-deception as Refracted through the Art of Living with Spirits. Social Analysis. 47(2). 14 indexed citations

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Lambek, Michael. (2002). Fantasy in Practice: Projection and Introjection, or the Witch and the Spirit-Medium. Social Analysis. 46(3). 5 indexed citations

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Lambek, Michael. (2001). The value of coins in a Sakalava polity: money, death, and historicity in Mahajanga, Madagascar. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 43(4). 735–762. 14 indexed citations

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Josephides, Lisette, Michael Lambek, & Andrew Strathern. (2001). Bodies and Persons: Comparative Perspectives from Africa and Melanesia. Africa. 71(2). 314–314. 63 indexed citations

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Lambek, Michael. (2000). The Anthropology of Religion and the Quarrel between Poetry and Philosophy. Current Anthropology. 41(3). 309–320. 69 indexed citations

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Lambek, Michael, et al.. (2000). Bodies and Persons: Comparative Perspectives from Africa and Melanesia. Pacific Affairs. 73(4). 627–627. 3 indexed citations

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