Tanya Marie Luhrmann was born on 1959 and is an American psychological anthropologist known for her studies of modern-day witches, charismatic Christians, and studies of how culture shapes psychotic, dissociative, and related experiences.
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Tanya Luhrmann has studied culture and morality, and the training of psychiatrists.
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Tanya Luhrmann is Watkins University Professor in the Anthropology Department at Stanford University.
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Tanya Luhrmann then studied social anthropology at Cambridge University, working with Jack Goody and Ernest Gellner.
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Tanya Luhrmann's second research project looked at the situation of contemporary Parsis, a Zoroastrian community in India.
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Tanya Luhrmann was a faculty member in Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, from 1989 to 2000.
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Tanya Luhrmann was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003, president of the Society for Psychological Anthropology for 2008.
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Tanya Luhrmann has received awards for scholarship, including the American Anthropological Association's President's award for 2004 and a 2007 Guggenheim award.
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In 2006, Tanya Luhrmann delivered the Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture at the University of Rochester.
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Tanya Luhrmann has two sisters, including children's book author Anna Dewdney.
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Tanya Luhrmann is married to interim Stanford University president Richard Saller.