Talk:Tanya Luhrmann

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Links and References

I just found the following, which may be of interest also to others (e.g. in light of the "relevance" controversy):

1) A review in the __NYTimes__ of Jan.7th 2001 ("God's Work")

2) Another one in __Current Anthropology 39__ (No.1) / Feb.1998/ pp.176-177

3) __Harvard U. Press__, Book catologue, with photograph and reviewers' statements from various larger U.S.-American newspapers.

4) The website of the __American Anthropol. Assoc.__ at "www.aaanet.org", under "Recent Books of Interest".

5) The staff pages of the U. Chicago (including a photograph of her, which however seems to be currently blocked from view by some technical problem).

- The Reviewers seem to be full of praise; see esp. her colleagues' statement in (4) listing her under "one of the most acknowledged younger Amer. Anthropologists" or sth. like that, which seems to indicate that she is indeed not completely irrelevant to the world of her profession.

> Disclaimer: I don't know the lady myself, so I am in no way "pro" or "contra"; neither am I a social scientist, nor American. I just happened to find her "Witchcraft" book in a large Univ. Inst. library (in Europe) last Friday, found it very well written, and got interested in her person, so I ended up here and did a quick Web search. That's all.

Regards, Sophophilos 147.142.186.54 12:32, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Luhrman's Dog

I took Tanya Luhrman's psychological anthropology class in 1999 at UC San Diego. She brought her dog to almost every class. The dog was named Dorothea and was some sort of small, terrier type breed that did not bark. She explained in class that her fieldwork on Wicca required her to have an animal familiar and she could not get a cat because she was allergic. So she found the most cat-like dog she could. I don't know why, but I'll never forget that.

mrstoltz (talk) 16:58, 18 December 2008 (UTC)mrstoltz 12-18-08[reply]