Island in the Stream: An Ethnographic History of Mayotte - Paperback

by Michael Lambek (Author), Michael D. Jackson (Foreword by)

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 ethnographic history and describes people's ongoing ethical engagement with their past and future.

Author Biography

Michael Lambek is a professor and Canada Research Chair emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.
Michael D. Jackson is a New Zealand poet and anthropologist who has taught in anthropology departments at Massey University, the Australian National University, Indiana University Bloomington, and the University of Copenhagen. He is a religion professor at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, MA, USA.